The Public Service Vehicles (Registration of Local Services) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2008

Scottish Statutory Instruments

2008 No. 253

PUBLIC PASSENGER TRANSPORT

The Public Service Vehicles (Registration of Local Services) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2008

Made

17th June 2008

Laid before the Scottish Parliament

20th June 2008

Coming into force

15th September 2008

The Scottish Ministers make the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 52(1) and 60(1)(e) and (1A) of the Public Passenger Vehicles Act 1981(1) and all other powers enabling them to do so.

In accordance with section 61(2) of that Act(2), they have consulted with such representative organisations as they think fit.

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Public Service Vehicles (Registration of Local Services) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2008 and come into force on 15th September 2008.

Amendment of the Public Service Vehicles (Registration of Local Services) (Scotland) Regulations 2001

2.  In regulation 13(1)(b) and (2)(b) of the Public Service Vehicles (Registration of Local Services) (Scotland) Regulations 2001(3) for “£54” substitute “£57”.

STEWART STEVENSON

Authorised to sign by the Scottish Ministers

St Andrew’s House,

Edinburgh

17th June 2008

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations increase the fees for the registration of, or the variation of the registration of, a local bus service, other than a community bus service. The fee is increased from £54 to £57 (an increase of 5.6%). The fees were last increased on 1st April 2007.

A Regulatory Impact Assessment of the effect that this instrument will have on the costs of business is available from Bus and Taxi Policy, the Scottish Government, Bus, Freight and Roads Division, Area 2-F (North), Victoria Quay, Edinburgh EH6 6QQ.

(1)

1981 c. 14 (“the 1981 Act”). Section 52(1) was amended by the Transport Act 1985 (c. 67) (“the 1985 Act”), sections 1(3), 3(5) and 139(3), Schedule 1, paragraph 7, Part II of Schedule 2, paragraph 4(1) and (14) and Schedule 8; the Road Traffic (Driver Licensing and Information Systems) Act 1989 (c. 22), section 16 and Schedule 6; and the Deregulation and Contracting Out Act 1994 (c. 40) (“the 1994 Act”), section 66. In section 60, subsection (1) was amended by the 1985 Act, sections 3, 134 and 139, Part II of Schedule 2, paragraph 4(18), Schedule 7, paragraph 21(1) and (9) and Schedule 8; and the Transport and Works Act 1992 (c. 42), section 61(5); and the 1994 Act, section 66(5); and subsection (1A) was inserted by the 1985 Act, section 134(2). Section 52 was applied to fees for the registration of local services by section 126(1) of the 1985 Act and sections 60 and 61 have effect by virtue of sections 134 and 135 of the 1985 Act as if Part I of the 1985 Act was incorporated in the 1981 Act. For the definition of “prescribed” see section 60(2) of the 1981 Act. The functions of the Secretary of State were transferred to the Scottish Ministers by virtue of section 53 of the Scotland Act 1998 (c. 46).

(2)

Section 61(2) was amended by the 1985 Act, section 139(3) and Schedule 8.

(3)

S.S.I. 2001/219; amended by S.S.I. 2001/251, 2002/548, 2004/415, 2005/346 and 2007/79.