That sucks!Been there, done that...… we have inspections every 6 months here on cars older than 2000....I dread getting mine check every half year.....Actually mine is in getting checked today as I'm writing this haha
In the US as the vehicles get older, the inspections get more lax. If I recall, when I had to deal w/ it at one point, the dude told me if it was over 20 years old, they didn't sniff test it (Denver maybe?)