New chassis and SVA

I've been getting conflicting advice regarding the need to have an SVA test on a landy with a new replacement chassis.

Always assumed that would be the case with a second hand chassis and would result in a Q-plate but recently was told this applies to new chassis even if they are to same spec as OE. I thought it was a load of cak.

So dredged thru The Motor Vehicles (Approval) Regulations 2001

In Regulation 3 (1), schedule 2 vehicles, part 7 found this gem:

Rebuilt vehicles
7. A vehicle is a rebuilt vehicle if it -





(c) has been rebuilt using a replacement chassis, or an integral chassis body, which is of the same design and construction as that of the original vehicle and which -

• • (i) was supplied for the purpose without having been previously used, or
    
    (ii) previously formed part of a registered vehicle.

It seems fairly black and white - just hope the MOT man won't know the rule!! Theres a lot of folk on here with new replacement chassis' including masel. The rules are rediculously complex.

So that basically says, if you swap the chassis for a 2nd hand or new one, you need a q-plate?

Can't be right, look in any landy mag, loads of people who restore vehicles get new chassis, and never on a Q plate!

either that or cast me down for reading it all wrong!

1st of all you'd need to tell dvla that you've fitted a new chassis?? and if it was just a straight like for like chassis swap then they probably wouldn't bother. These regs are there to stop people fitting tax exempt plates on 1997 defenders and saying they're still tax exempt.

I welded a new bit to my chassis some time ago, so how much of the chassis do you have to replace to make a new one?

Remember when Trigger said he'd had his broom for many years, but it had had 10 new handles and 10 new heads!

I'm going to go down the not-tell-the-dvla route.