The Motor Vehicles (Tests) (Amendment) (No.2) Regulations 1989

4.—(1) Regulation 20 shall be amended as follows.

(2) For sub-paragraph (a) of paragraph (2) there shall be substituted –

(a)if the application is one to which regulation 12(1) applies (not being an application for an re-examination), at the time the application is made;.

(3) In paragraph(2)(b), for the words before sub-paragraph (i) there shall be substituted the words “if the application is one to which Regulation 12(2) applies or, in the case of an application for a re-examination, is one to which Regulation 12(1) and (1A) applies –”.

(4) After paragraph (2) there shall be inserted the following paragraph –

(2A) Where, in the case of a vehicle in Class VI, the date appointed for an examination is, at the request of the applicant, a Saturday, the fee payable for the examination shall be increased by £24.50 in the case of a vehicle which is constructed or adapted to carry more than 12 passengers, and £18.00 in any other case, such additional amount being payable on or before the date of the appointment..

(5) For paragraph (4) there shall be substituted the following paragraph –

(4) Where, on an examination of a vehicle of a description specified in column 1 of the Table, it is found that some or all of the prescribed statutory requirements are not complied with, or when in the circumstances mentioned in Regulation 16, a full examination of the braking system or systems of the vehicle is not carried out, then the fee payable in respect of a further examination shall –

(a)in a case where the date appointed for the further examination is, at the request of the applicant a Saturday, be as shown in column 3 of the Table in relation to a vehicle of that description, and

(b)in any other case, be as shown in column 2 of the Table in relation to a vehicle of that description.

TABLE

FEES RELATING TO THE RE-EXAMINATION OF VEHICLES IN CLASS VI

Column 1Column 2Column 3
Description of vehicleNormal feeSaturday Fee
Vehicles in Class VI constructed or adapted to carry more than 12 passengers.

(a)£17.75, if the vehicle is sumitted for a further exaination within 14 days of the date of the issue of the notice of refusal of a test certificate, or

(a)£30, in the circumstances described in paragraph (a) of the entry in column 2, or

(b)£36.25, in any other case.

(b)£60.75 in any other case.

Other vehicles in Class VI

(a)£12.50, if the vehicle is submitted for a further examination within 14 days of the date of the issue of the notice of refusal of a test certificate, or

(a)£21.50, in the circustances described in paragraph (a) of the entry in column 2, or,

(b)£25.25, in any other case.

(b)£43.25, in any other case..

(6) In paragraph (5B)(ii), for the words “the said fee” onwards there shall be substituted the words “the fee shall be reduced to £1.50 (the balance of any sum paid in respect of the fee being refundable)”.