The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Large Goods and Passenger-Carrying Vehicles) (Amendment) (No. 4) Regulations 1992

Statutory Instruments

1992 No. 1761

ROAD TRAFFIC

PUBLIC PASSENGER TRANSPORT

The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Large Goods and Passenger-Carrying Vehicles) (Amendment) (No. 4) Regulations 1992

Made

15th July 1992

Laid before Parliament

22nd July 1992

Coming into force

14th August 1992

The Secretary of State for Transport, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 89(3) and (4)(b), 105(1), (3) and (4), 108(1)(1) and 192(1)(2) of the Road Traffic Act 1988(3), and of all other enabling powers, and after consultation with representative organisations in accordance with section 195(2) of that Act, and with the approval of the Treasury, hereby makes the following Regulations:

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Large Goods and Passenger-Carrying Vehicles) (Amendment) (No. 4) Regulations 1992 and shall come into force on 14th August 1992.

2.—(1) The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Large Goods and Passenger-Carrying Vehicles) Regulations 1990(4) shall be amended in accordance with the following provision of this regulation.

(2) In paragraph (2) of regulation 15 (Applications for tests) for sub-paragraphs (a) to (c) there shall be substituted the following sub-paragraphs—

“(a) in respect of a test to be conducted on a day other than a Saturday—

(i) £48 if the application for the test is made before 14th August 1992, and

(ii) £55.50 if the application is made on or after that date;

(b) in respect of a test to be conducted on a Saturday, £75.”.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport

Kenneth Carlisle

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,

Department of Transport

13th July 1992

We approve the making of these Regulations

Irvine Patnick

Tim Boswell

Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury

15th July 1992

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend regulation 15 of the Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Large Goods and Passenger-Carrying Vehicles) Regulations 1990 so as to increase the fee payable for a test of competence to drive a large goods or passenger-carrying vehicle taken on a day other than a Saturday from £48 to £55.50. There is no increase in the fee for such a test taken on a Saturday.

(1)

See the definition of “prescribed” and “regulations”.

(2)

See the definition of “prescribed”.

(3)

1988 c. 52; section 89(3)(a) was amended by section 48 of, and paragraph 63 of Schedule 4 to, the Road Traffic Act 1991 (c. 40) on 1st July 1992 (see the Road Traffic Act 1991 (Commencement No. 4 and Transitional Provisions) Order 1992 (S.I. 1992/1286)); section 89(4)(b) is to be read with the Department of Transport (Fees) Order 1988 (S.I. 1988/643), where the relevant entry is to be found in Schedule 1, Table VI (see item 1A). Table VI was inserted by the Department of Transport (Fees) (Amendment) Order 1991 (S.I. 1991/811) on 1st April 1991.

(4)

S.I. 1990/2612; there is one relevant amending instrument—S.I. 1991/1122.