Duplicate test certificates
18.—(1) If a test certificate has been lost or defaced, an application for the issue of a duplicate of the original certificate may be made.
(2) Subject to paragraph (3), the Department shall search the copies of test certificates and other records in its possession and upon tracing sufficient particulars of the certificate to which the application relates to enable a duplicate to be issued and on being paid the fee determined in accordance with paragraph 6 of Schedule 1 shall issue a duplicate marked “Duplicate” and the duplicate so issued shall have the same effect as the original test certificate.
(3) No such search need be made if the original certificate was issued more than thirteen months previously or if the applicant does not furnish with his application the approximate date of its issue, together with particulars of the registration mark of the vehicle to which the certificate relates and also either the address or identity of the vehicle testing centre at which the original certificate was issued.