Title: MOT test - Wikipedia
Headings: MOT test
MOT test
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History
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Test classification
Fees
Rules and regulations for the United Kingdom
Overview of the test
Lighting exemption
Historic (classic) vehicles exemption
Re-tests
Appeals against MOT inspections
Mileage
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2012
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Emissions testing in Northern Ireland
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Mandatory periodical technical checkup for motor vehicles in the United Kingdom

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Approved MOT test stations must display the blue "three triangles" logo. The MOT test (Ministry of Transport, or simply MOT) is an annual test of vehicle safety, roadworthiness aspects and exhaust emissions required in the United Kingdom for most vehicles over three years old. In Northern Ireland the equivalent requirement applies after four years. The requirement does not apply to vehicles used only on various small islands with no convenient connection "to a road in any part of Great Britain"; no similar exemption is listed at the beginning of 2014 for Northern Ireland, which has a single inhabited island, Rathlin. The MOT test was first introduced in 1960 as a few basic tests of a vehicle and now covers 20 different parts or systems on or in the car.