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Plumbers, Gasfitters, and Drainlayers Act 2006

Self-contained motor vehicles - Certification authorities - Certificates of self-containment

87X: Form of certificate of self-containment

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"What a certificate of self-containment for a motor vehicle should look like"

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You need a certificate of self-containment for a motor vehicle. This certificate must be in a certain form set by regulations. It also comes with a warrant card that states the vehicle has a certificate of self-containment. The warrant card must be in a form set by regulations. You can use a certificate of self-containment for up to 4 years, until its expiry date. However, the certificate is no longer valid if the vehicle is modified in certain ways or if a self-containment certification authority revokes it, as stated in section 87W.

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Part 2ASelf-contained motor vehicles
Certification authorities: Certificates of self-containment

87XForm of certificate of self-containment

  1. A certificate of self-containment—

  2. must be in the form prescribed by regulations; and
    1. must be accompanied by a warrant card that—
      1. states that the motor vehicle has been issued with a certificate of self-containment; and
        1. is in the form prescribed by regulations.

        2. A certificate of self-containment is valid for a period not exceeding 4 years and expires on the expiry date specified on the certificate.

        3. However, a certificate of self-containment ceases to be valid if 1 or more of the following circumstances applies:

        4. the motor vehicle to which the certificate applies undergoes a material modification to 1 or more of the critical self-containment elements prescribed by regulations:
          1. a self-containment certification authority revokes a certificate in accordance with section 87W.

            Notes
            • Section 87X: inserted, on , by section 48 of the Self-contained Motor Vehicles Legislation Act 2023 (2023 No 24).