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In Great Britain MOT testing centres are regulated and licensed by the Department and Transport and DVSA for the purpose, and the individual testers carrying out the inspections also have to be trained and certified. The main purpose of the MOT test is to check if a vehicle meets the main UK road safety standards. [17]
Pre-2012 logo of DVLA. The vehicle register held by DVLA is used in many ways. For example, by the DVLA itself to identify untaxed vehicles, and by outside agencies to identify keepers of cars entering central London who have not paid the congestion charge, or who exceed speed limits on a road that has speed cameras by matching the cars to their keepers utilising the DVLA database.
The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) is an executive agency of the UK Department for Transport (DfT).. It carries out driving tests, approves people to be driving instructors and MOT testers, carries out tests to make sure lorries and buses are safe to drive, [1] carries out roadside checks on drivers and vehicles, and monitors vehicle recalls.
The London congestion charge scheme uses two hundred and thirty cameras and ANPR to help monitor vehicles in the charging zone. In 2005, the Independent reported that by the following year, the majority of roads, urban cetres, London's congestion charge zone, [6] ports and petrol station forecourts will have been covered by CCTV camera networks using automatic number plate recognition.
The Driver and Vehicle Agency (DVA; Irish: An Ghníomhaireacht Tiománaithe agus Feithiclí [1]) is a government agency of the Department for Infrastructure in Northern Ireland. The agency is responsible for conducting vehicle testing, driver testing and the issuance of driving licences.
The Vehicle Operator Services Agency (VOSA) have computerised the MOT; as a result, a link has been created to the PNC which shows the expiration date of the MOT tests for vehicles. The vehicle file actually contains two separate databases (that show on a single screen), one of which is updated and controlled by the DVLA, and the second part is ...
My Car Check has integrations with the police database, the National Vehicle Crime Intelligence Service (NAVCIS), the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA), the Association of British Insurers (ABI), the Motor Insurers' Bureau (MIB), the Finance and Leasing Association (FLA), the British Vehicle Rental and Leasing Association (BVRLA) and the National Association of Motor Auctions (NAMA).
The MOT test (from Ministry of Transport, the former name of the Department for Transport) is a mandatory annual test of safety, road worthiness and exhaust emissions for vehicles over three years old. It is enforced by linking the official MOT database to the payment of Vehicle Excise Duty tax. Prior to November 2014 a tax disc had to be ...