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

Statutory Instruments

1989 No. 920

ROAD TRAFFIC

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

Made

1st June 1989

Laid before Parliament

8th June 1989

Coming into force

1st July 1989

The Secretary of State for Transport, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 45(2) and (7) and 46 of the Road Traffic Act 1988(1), and of all other enabling powers, and after consultation with representative organisations in accordance with section 195(2) of that Act, hereby makes the following Regulations:–

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Motor Vehicles (Tests) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1989 and shall come into force on 1st July 1989.

2.  The Motor Vehicles (Tests) Regulations 1981(2) are hereby amended so that in the regulations specified in column 1 of the Table below for the amounts specified in column 2 of the Table there are substituted the amounts specified in column 3 of the Table.

TABLE

(1)	(2)	(3)
Regulation	Existing amount	Substituted amount
20(1)(a)	£7.92	£8.56
20(1)(c)	£13.22	£14.26
23(2)(b)	£3.96	£4.28
23(2)(c)	£6.61	£7.13
25(2)	£37.00	£35.50

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State

Peter Bottomley

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,

Department of Transport

1st June 1989

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations further amend the Motor Vehicles (Tests) Regulations 1981 (“the principal Regulations”) as follows.

(a) The fee payable for the examination of a motor bicycle not having a side car attached to it is increased from £7.92 to £8.56.

(b) The fee payable for the examination of any other vehicle (not being a Class VI vehicle) is increased from £13.22 to £14.26. Class VI vehicles are public service vehicles other than those of a type specified in regulation 5(3) of the principal Regulations.

(c) The fee payable for the issue of a duplicate test certificate for vehicles (other than Class VI vehicles) is increased–

(i) from £3.96 to £4.28 in the case of a motor bicycle not having a side car attached to it; and

(ii) from £6.61 to £7.13 in any other case.

(d) The fee payable for the supply of 100 forms of test certificate is reduced from £37 to £35.50.

(1)

1988 c. 52.

(2)

S.I. 1981/1694; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1982/783, 1983/1147, 1984/727, 1985/834, 1986/904, 1987/1144, 1988/339 and 989.