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A recovery vehicle cannot be used under a trade licence for recovery work but it can be used under a trade licence for any of the authorised purposes.
An authorised purpose is:
(a) test or trial of the vehicle or its accessories or equipment in the ordinary course of construction, modification or repair or after their completion.
(b) going to or from a public weighbridge for finding the vehicle's unladen weight or going to a place of registration or inspection by a person acting for the Secretary of State
(c) test or trial of the vehicle for the benefit of a prospective purchaser, or going to or from such test or trial
(d) test or trial of the vehicle for the benefit of a person interested in promoting publicity about it, or going to or from such test or trial
(e) delivering the vehicle to the place where the purchaser intends to keep it
(f) demonstrating the operation of the vehicle, its accessories or equipment when being handed over to the purchaser
(g) (i) delivering the vehicle from one part of his premises to another part of his premises
(ii) delivering it to or from his premises to the premises of, or between parts of the premises of, another motor trader, or
(iii) removing it from the premises of another motor trader direct to his own premises
(h) going to, or returning from, a workshop in which a body or a special type of equipment or accessory is to be, or has been, fitted to the vehicle or in which it is to be, or has been, painted, valeted or repaired
(i) going from the premises of a motor trader to a place where the vehicle is to be transported by train, ship or aircraft, or going to the premises of a motor trader from a place to which it has been so transported
(j) going to or returning from any garage, auction room or other place at which vehicles are usually stored or usually or periodically offered for sale and at which the vehicle is to be or has been stored or offered for sale
(k) going to or returning from a place where the vehicle is to be or has been tested or going to a place where it is to be broken up or dismantled
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