{"id":1326,"date":"2010-08-07T10:00:03","date_gmt":"2010-08-07T09:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/?p=1326"},"modified":"2010-08-04T13:32:12","modified_gmt":"2010-08-04T12:32:12","slug":"who-carries-out-the-mot-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/2010\/08\/who-carries-out-the-mot-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Who carries out the MOT test?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>\u00a0<\/h1>\n<p>MOT tests are carried out by vehicle test examiners employed by the Driver &amp; Vehicle Agency (DVA) who are fully qualified mechanics. \u00a0They must have obtained relevant qualifications (or their equivalent) prior to their appointment:<\/p>\n<h2>Vehicle Examiner Qualifications<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>City and Guilds Motor Vehicle Craft Certificate 381 Part III<\/li>\n<li>City and Guilds Repair and Servicing of Road Vehicles Certificates 383 Level 3<\/li>\n<li>BTEC (A8) Certificate in Motor Vehicle Engineering Level 3<\/li>\n<li>Scottish Qualifications Authority \u2013 SNVQ Level 3 in Vehicle Mechanical &amp; Electronic Systems Maintenance and Repair (Light Vehicle or Heavy Vehicle)<\/li>\n<li>City and Guilds \u2013 330 NVQ in Vehicle Mechanical and Electronic Systems<\/li>\n<li>National Council for Vocational Qualifications \u2013 Level 3 in Vehicle Mechanical &amp; Electronic Systems (Heavy Vehicles \u2013 Maintenance and Repair)<\/li>\n<li>BTEC \u2013 Vehicle Mechanical and Electronic Systems \u2013 Maintenance and Repair Light Vehicles (Schedule No 125) or Vehicle Mechanical and Electronic Systems \u2013 Maintenance (Level 3, Schedule No 126) Heavy Vehicles<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In addition, they must have served an apprenticeship of at least three years pre-qualification and have two years post-qualification experience.<\/p>\n<p>After recruitment and before carrying out tests in the \u201clive\u201d environment, they must successfully complete an intensive four week training programme \u00a0which includes both practical and written examinations. \u00a0This programme is accredited by the Institute of the Motor Industry (IMI).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 MOT tests are carried out by vehicle test examiners employed by the Driver &amp; Vehicle Agency (DVA) who are fully qualified mechanics. \u00a0They must have obtained relevant qualifications (or their equivalent) prior to their appointment: Vehicle Examiner Qualifications City and Guilds Motor Vehicle Craft Certificate 381 Part III City and Guilds Repair and Servicing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123457,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[136,4],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1326"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/123457"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1326"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1328,"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1326\/revisions\/1328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}