Your “first” visit to a dealer must be before April 13th to avoid new to scheme requirements.
Applications placed by a dealer on or after April 13 have new to scheme Drive Smart requirements (as well as under 30 year old requirements).
(Formally those at the Eligibility stage on OLA – so any application that is filled out and posted for Motability to consider)
But most customers incorrectly call this ‘order placement stage’