12.This section substitutes a new section 46 in the Road Traffic Act 1988. The new section re‑enacts the existing provisions and adds further provisions.
13.The principal new provisions are as follows.
	Subsections (1)(e) and (3) enable the Secretary of State to make provision for supervision of MOT testing stations. He may, in particular, provide for a person to be made a nominated supervisor for a testing station. This power would be useful where, for example, an authorised examiner has several testing stations and cannot be present at all of them.
	Subsection (1)(i) enables the Secretary of State to provide in regulations for factual errors in MOT test certificates to be corrected.
	Subsections (1)(j) and (4) deal with the charges payable to the Secretary of State by authorised examiners or designated councils on the issue of the result of an MOT test; on issue of duplicates or copies of test certificates; and on the correction of errors in test certificates. Subsection (4)(a) enables the Secretary of State to require payment on account from authorised examiners and designated councils for entering the results of MOT tests into the proposed MOT database. The provision would also enable the Secretary of State to require payment on account at prescribed times of such amounts as he may determine in accordance with the regulations. Subsection (4)(b) reproduces part of existing section 46(d). The Secretary of State may charge for supplying, in advance of MOT tests, blank forms for test certificates and notifications of refusal of test certificates. Subsection (4) also provides for money paid on account to be repaid in prescribed circumstances.
	Subsection (2) enables the Secretary of State to require that persons connected with MOT testing should successfully complete training courses and pay such fees as may be prescribed in connection with applications for the Secretary of State's authorisation, approval or designation.
	Subsection (5) enables the Secretary of State to make information available from the MOT records to prescribed persons on payment, in prescribed cases, of a reasonable fee. This provision would allow the Secretary of State to disclose information from the MOT database in accordance with regulations. It is envisaged that regulations could provide, for example, for:the issue, on payment of a reasonable fee, of particulars relating to a vehicle's MOT history to a person who could demonstrate that he had reasonable cause for wanting such information; andthe issue to the police of information relating to the MOT status of vehicles (free of charge and via the Police National Computer).
	Subsection (6) enables the Secretary of State to sell particulars contained in, or derived from, the MOT records. The particulars and information could be sold:to such persons as the Secretary of State thought fit;for such price, on such terms and subject to such restrictions as the Secretary of State thought fit; andwithout identifying the premises at which an examination was carried out or any person concerned with the carrying out of an examination.
Commentary on Sections Section 2: Regulations under section 45