Part 2: Trailers Policy Background Section 20: Trailer safety: report
This section requires the Secretary of State to produce a report on the number and causes of road accidents in Great Britain which involve trailers and have caused injury or death to any person within the reporting period. The report must contain an assessment of whether trailers weighing more than 750kg should be subject to compulsory registration, under section 13, or periodic testing. If a recommendation was made in the report to introduce compulsory registration under section 13, this would be limited to Great Britain.
	The report must be laid before Parliament within 12 months of this section coming into force. The reporting period must last a minimum of 12 months ending no earlier than 18 months before this section comes into force. The trailers to be included within the report are not limited by usage or weight.