The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Amendment) Regulations 2000

Statutory Instruments

2000 No. 2766

ROAD TRAFFIC

The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Amendment) Regulations 2000

Made

10th October 2000

Laid before Parliament

10th October 2000

Coming into force

1st November 2000

The Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by sections 97(1), 105(1), (2) and (3) and 108(1) of the Road Traffic Act 1988(1), after consulting with representative organisations in accordance with section 195(2) of that Act and with the approval of the Treasury(2), hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Amendment) Regulations 2000 and shall come into force on 1st November 2000.

Amendment of Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) Regulations 1999

2.  The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) Regulations 1999(3) are amended in accordance with the following regulations.

3.  In regulation 65(2)(b), for the words “these Regulations” shall be substituted “the Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) Regulations 1996”(4).

4.  For the table in Part 1 of Schedule 3 (table of licence fees) there shall be substituted the table in Schedule 1 below.

Signed by the authority of the Secretary of State

Larry Whitty

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State

Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions

4th October 2000

We approve the making of these Regulations

Bob Ainsworth

Jim Dowd

Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury

10th October 2000

SCHEDULE 1 PROVISIONS INSERTED IN SUBSTITUTION FOR PART 1 OF SCHEDULE 3

	Description of Licence and circumstances of application	Fee payable
1.	A first licence.	£27.50
2.	A provisional licence granted following the revocation of a licence under the Road Traffic (New Drivers) Act 1995(5).	£27.50
3.	A full licence granted in exchange for a full Northern Ireland licence or to a person who has held a full Northern Ireland licence which was granted on or after 1st January 1976.	£17.50
4.	A provisional licence authorising the driving of vehicles of a class included in category A except— (a) a first licence, (b) a licence granted following the revocation of a licence under section 93(1) or (2) of the Traffic Act or the delivery of a Community licence to the Secretary of State under section 99C(1), (2) or (3) of the Traffic Act(6), or (c) a licence falling within paragraph 8, 12 or 13.	£17.50
5.	A licence which is the applicant’s first full Group 1 licence, first full licence authorising the driving of vehicles in category C or first full licence authorising the driving of vehicles in category D.	£12.50
6.	A licence granted in exchange for a licence still in force or in place of a licence which has been revoked or a Community licence which is required to be delivered to the Secretary of State, except— (a) a licence granted pursuant to section 118(4) of the Traffic Act, (b) a licence granted following the revocation of a licence under section 93(1) of the Traffic Act or the delivery of a Community licence to the Secretary of State under section 99C(1) or (3) of the Traffic Act, (c) a licence which the Secretary of State is required to grant free of charge under section 93(2), 99(7) or 99C(2) of the Traffic Act, (d) a short Group 2 licence, or (e) a licence falling within any other paragraph within this Part.	£17.50
7.	A Group 1 licence granted upon the expiry of a previous Group 1 licence, except— (a) a licence falling within paragraph 4, or (b) a licence granted under section 99(1)(b) of the Traffic Act.	£6.00
8.	A licence granted by way of replacement of a lost or defaced licence.	£17.50
9.	A provisional licence authorising the driving of vehicles of a class included in category C.	£27.50
10.	A provisional licence authorising the driving of vehicles of a class included in category D.	£27.50
11.	A full Group 2 licence granted upon the expiry of a previous full Group 2 licence, other than a licence granted under section 99(1)(b) or (1A)(c) of the Traffic Act(7).	£32.50
12.	A licence, other than a short Group 2 licence, granted upon the expiry of a period of disqualification ordered by a court under section 34 or 35 of the Offenders Act(8)— (a) in the circumstances prescribed under section 94(4) of the Traffic Act(9) irrespective of the date when the court order was made;	£37.50
	(b) otherwise than in those circumstances.	£28.50
13.	A provisional licence, other than a first licence, granted following disqualification ordered by a court under section 36 of the Offenders Act, whether or not the court also made an order under section 34 or 35 of that Act— (a) in the circumstances prescribed under section 94(4) of the Traffic Act irrespective of the date when the court order was made;	£37.50
	(b) otherwise than in those circumstances.	£28.50
14.	A provisional Group 2 licence granted first to a person who has been ordered to take a driving test under section 117 or 117A of the Traffic Act(10).	£28.50

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) Regulations 1999.

Regulation 3 amends an incorrect reference in regulation 65(2)(b) of the 1999 Regulations.

Regulation 4 and Schedule 1 substitute a new Part 1 to Schedule 3 specifying revised fees payable upon an application for a driving licence made on or after 1st November 2000.

The fees for all types of application are increased except for the fee payable on the renewal of a Group 1 licence at age 70 and thereafter, which is altered from £8.50 to £6.00, a reduction of 29.4%.

The following table shows the increase for the other types of applications specified in Part 1 of Schedule 3. For applications for which the existing amount is that specified in column 1 the new fee will be that shown in column 2. The percentage increase is shown in column 3.

1. Existing fee	2. New fee	3. Percentage increase
£8.50	£12.50	47.1%
£13.50	£17.50	29.6%
£23.50	£27.50	17%
£24.50	£28.50	16.3%
£28.50	£32.50	14%
£33.50	£37.50	11.9%

Driving licence fees were last increased on the 1st April 1999.

(1)

1988 c. 52. The relevant amendments to section 97(1) were by the Road Traffic (Driver Licensing and Information Systems) Act 1989 (c. 22) and to section 105(2)(e) by the Driving Licences (Community Driving Licence) Regulations 1990 (S.I. 1990/144; in section 108 see the definition of “prescribed” and “regulations”.

(2)

See section 105(4) of the Road Traffic Act 1988.

(3)

S.I. 1999/2864.

(4)

S.I. 1996/2824; see regulation 55. The relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1997/669 and 1998/20.

(5)

1995 c. 13.

(6)

Section 99C was inserted by the Driving Licences (Community Driving Licence) Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/1974).

(7)

Subsection (1A) was inserted by section 2(2) of the Road Traffic (Driver Licensing and Information Systems) Act 1989 (c. 22).

(8)

i.e. the Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988 (c. 53). Section 36 was substituted by section 32 of the Road Traffic Act 1991 (c. 40).

(9)

The relevant amendment is by section 5(1) of the Road Traffic (Driver Licensing and Information Systems) Act 1989.

(10)

Section 117 was substituted by section 2(1) of and Schedule 2 to the Road Traffic (Driver Licensing and Information Systems) Act 1989. Section 117A was inserted by the Driving Licences (Community Driving Licence) Regulations 1996.