MOTing and untaxed uninsured car

[snowen250]

Hello all

Looking for some help. I have a shedtastic BMW 318 i acquired for the pricely sum of £10 back in the summer. Since then it has been sorn'd in the garage. Once the clio sells i may need to use it to get around before i get a new car. Now, i know il have to insure it but surely i cant tax it until its mot'd can i? So is it ok to drive it to the testing station with just insurance no tax? Its about a mile and the chances of being stopped are remote (if the postman doesnt know where i live, sod all chance plod do) but i dont want to break the law.

I know google is my friend, but cant seem to find a definitive answer.

I'm then going to sell the BMW, but if somone wants to just take it off my hands now and get the sodding thing out the garage before all this ball ache, well. Wouldnt take much to convince me........

Cheers for any help guys.

Simon

[SS2.]

snowen250 said:

So is it ok to drive it to the testing station with just insurance no tax?

Absolutely fine.

Make sure that the test is pre-booked (this is a pre-requisite), and note that the exemption from tax and MOT does not extend to vehicle defects.

[snowen250]

Ok cool, this does backup what i had read but i like to get a second opinion. also the title should read an* not and* spellfail.

Simon

[SS2.]

For reference -

The Motor Vehicles Tests Regulations 1981 said:

6. Exemptions

(2) Pursuant to section 44(6) the Secretary of State hereby exempts from section 44(1) for use of a vehicle;

(a) (i) for the purpose of submitting it by previous arrangement for, or bringing it away from, an examination, or

(ii) in the course of an examination, for the purpose of taking it to, or bringing it away from, any place where a part of the examination is to be or, as the case may be, has been, carried out, or of carrying out any part of the examination, the person so using it being either;

(A) an examiner, or a Ministry Inspector or an inspector appointed by a designated council, or

(B) a person acting under the personal direction of an examiner, a Ministry
Inspector or a designated Council, or

(iii) where a test certificate is refused on an examination—

(A) for the purpose of delivering it by previous arrangement at, or bringing it away from, a place where work is to be or has been done on it to remedy for a further examination the defects on the ground of which the test certificate was refused; or

(B) for the purpose of delivering it, by towing it, to a place where the vehicle is to be broken up;

(b) for any purpose for which the vehicle is authorised to be used on roads by an order under section 42;

(c) where the vehicle has been imported into Great Britain, for the purpose of its being driven after arrival in Great Britain on the journey from the place where it has arrived in Great Britain to a place of residence of the owner or driver of the vehicle;

(d) for the purpose of removing it in pursuance of section 3 of the Refuse Disposal (Amenity) Act 1978 of moving or removing it in pursuance of regulations under section 20 of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1967 as altered by the Removal and Disposal of Vehicles (Alteration of Enactments) Order 1967 or of removing it from a parking place in pursuance of an order
under section 31(1) of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1967, an order relating to a parking place designated under section 35 thereof, or a provision of a designation order having effect by virtue of section 39(2) thereof;

(e) where the vehicle has been detained or seized by a police constable, for police purposes connected with such detention or seizure;

[McSam]

SS2. said:

Absolutely fine.

Make sure that the test is pre-booked (this is a pre-requisite), and note that the exemption from tax and MOT does not extend to vehicle defects.

Yep. Basically you need the garage to corroborate that you're going to a booked MOT should you be stopped, and the car can't be falling to bits on the way.