In Great Britain all vehicles manufactured before 1960 are exempt from regular road-worthiness testing. A new EU Directive changes the rules around this. The new rules allow member states to exempt vehicles from testing if they:
- are at least 30 years old
- haven’t had substantial changes made to them
This means that, if we wish to continue to exempt classic vehicles from regular MOT testing, we’ll need to update UK law to reflect EU law.
The historic vehicles website closed for comments on 24th October 2014 after almost 650 comments on the website and in total across all vehicle types there were over 2830 survey responses.