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Do they have the MOT exemption process in Scotland?

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IDFIMH

What's the fuss, It would still have Read TAX 1 if it were on a private car or any other vehicle.

The only thing that may be deemed illegal is the spacings of the letters but even they seem fine to me.

Not sure, but since the MoT system is still the same throughout the UK I suppose it would depend on local rules.

But whatever the precise system is, there's no obvious reason why one would be MoTd when about seven months old, but the other not at an identical age.

I suppose it could depend on the mileage when the cars were licensed.

Down here we have a rule that vehicles don't need to do licensing check if they only have delivery mileage on.

Maybe one of those cars did, but the other had, say, 2,000 miles on necessitating a licensing check.

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IDFIMH

we don't and a few years ago a local driver bought a brand new Nissan to plate as it was brand new (delivery mileage only) it was assumed car would sail through..................

it failed on half a dozen things and the local Nissan dealer had a very expensive rectification bill

6 months later they converted to being a Toyota dealership !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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lack of modern legislation is the iceberg sinking the titanic of the transport sector

Although the process for ours in Fife is the same irrespective of age and mileage, what you say sounds quite plausible, and is certainly consistent with other information available.

Although both the Teslas were registered on 26 June 2018, if you look at the 'expiry date' on the plates, TAX 15 expires in July 2019, so if it's plated or tested for one year then that's consistent with it being plated soon after first registration, and that's the one that's *not* MoTd, so consistent with council *not* requiring a test.

However, the plate on TAX 1 expires in March 2020, which is consistent with it having *not* been plated for a few months after first registration. It was MoTd in February 2019, which is consistent with the plate expiry date. When MoTd it had done 1,818 miles, so since seven months old at that time that's consistent with it not having been used as a PHV before then, but of course had clocked up more than delivery mileage. Thus required testing before being plated.

Saw an almost new PHV in the St Andrews area today (according to the MoT database it's only six weeks old) with the registration number KY16 CAB

(KY16 is the first part of the local postcode for Fife - KY being Kirkcaldy.)

If I was that way inclined I'd complain to the council, particularly when they failed an annual inspection on one HC because the number plate was 'illegal', and as far as I know that was simply because the tiny lettering with the supplier's name and address wasn't on the bottom of the number plate (which absolutely no-one except the most nitpicking vehicle inspector would ever notice).

But I'm not that way inclined, so it's just from me, and I doubt if anyone else knows that particular rule. I mean, it seems no one at the council knew it when the vehicle was presented