Mot Exempt

[Nev C]

Hi,

I need to find out the rules regarding mot exeption on a Ferret and a Fox.

I understand I may need a form v112.

 

Please can anyone help me.

 

Regards

Nev.

[ArtistsRifles]

Yep - a V112, and I believe both are MOT exempt. Fox certainly is but I'm open to correction on the Ferret.

[john fox]

here we go again !

Read all about it here

 

http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Diol1/DoItOnline/DG_10015767'>http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Diol1/DoItOnline/DG_10015767'>http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Diol1/DoItOnline/DG_10015767

 

unless you personally have it in writing from VOSA no one can definitively confirm either is exempt as none of the categories on V112 or V112G apply to either Ferret or Fox directly and VOSA will not give a consistent ruling if you actually contact them. Members of this forum have each been told different things by VOSA at different times. This is because neither form was ever intended to be used for wheeled armoured vehicles and they simply cannot cope with making the vehicles fit the available rules because they don't!

 

the current situation is that many members claim exemption, the majority have done so because they were told it was OK by others but do not actually understand themselves why they are exempt, they just believe what they want to hear and claim from ignornance. Most people claim exemption using V112G under category 30 - this states " motor vehicles first used before 1st January 1960 and used unladen". A Ferret with a date in service pre January 1960 is arguably Ok under that category but a Ferret with a DIS after 1960 is not exempt if you try to use category 30 on the form - VOSA have confirmed this to me in writing, my 1965 Ferret is not exempt by virture of its category 30 age.

 

Obviously as Fox was built after 1960 it cannot claim age exemption so anyone who belives Fox is exempt must claim using one of the other categories of exemption. Please feel free to suggest which one applies if you believe it is exempt.

 

V112 G form found here: http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Diol1/DoItOnline/DG_10015767

 

V112 form may only be used for vehicles weighing less than 3500kg and so can be ignored as far as Ferret and Fox are concerned, it is the wrong form and must not be used - for information only it can be found here: http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Diol1/DoItOnline/DG_4017716

 

So the average claimant uses something from the V112G only but as this form does not actually require you to confirm in writing which of the exemption categories you have decided apply to you there is a large area for doubt yet you have to sign the form and that means you have decided (and are legally liable for that decision) which of categories 1-36 applies to your vehicle if you base your claim on the statement that your "vehicle is of a class listed in schedule 2 overleaf".

 

the situation will remain at best dubious or unclear until there is an accident and the person responsible has the book thrown at them in a test case in court.

 

Be very careful that whatever category of exemption you claim on the v112G form is consistent with the category of vehicle shown on your V5 log book from the DVLA - for example if you claim MOT exemption because you are "outside the scope of schedule 2" because the vehicle is a "motor tractor or heavy locomotive" then that's how you must be registered. As a motor tractor you then have to obey the rules relating to that class of vehicle - ie maximum speed 30mph everywhere except motorways (40mph)

 

read all about it here:

http://www.devon-cornwall.police.uk/v3/roadsafe/speed/index.htm

Edited May 16, 2008 by john fox