The Public Service Vehicles (Conditions of Fitness, Equipment, Use and Certification) (Amendment) Regulations 2004

Statutory Instruments

2004 No. 1880

PUBLIC PASSENGER TRANSPORT

The Public Service Vehicles (Conditions of Fitness, Equipment, Use and Certification) (Amendment) Regulations 2004

Made

14th July 2004

Laid before Parliament

6th August 2004

Coming into force

30th August 2004

The Secretary of State for Transport, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 10(1), 52(1) and 60 of the Public Passenger Vehicles Act 1981(1) and by virtue of the Department of Transport (Fees) Order 1988(2), and after consultation with representative organisations in accordance with section 61(2) of that Act, hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Public Service Vehicles (Conditions of Fitness, Equipment, Use and Certification) (Amendment) Regulations 2004 and shall come into force on 30th August 2004.

Increases in fees

2.—(1) The Public Service Vehicles (Conditions of Fitness, Equipment, Use and Certification) Regulations 1981(3) shall be amended as follows.

(2) In the regulations specified in column (1) of the following Table for the amounts specified in column (2) there shall be substituted the amounts specified in column (3).

TABLE

(1)	(2)	(3)
Regulation	Existing Amount(£)	Substituted Amount(£)
46(2)(a)(i)	179	269
46(2)(a)(ii)	143	215
46(2)(b)(i)	143	215
46(2)(b)(ii)	17	26
50(a)	830	1245
	77	114
50(b)	410	615
50(c)	1776	2664
53	16	24
57(5)	11	17

Signed by the authority of the Secretary of State

David Jamieson

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State

Department for Transport

14th July 2004

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Public Service Vehicles (Conditions of Fitness, Equipment, Use and Certification) Regulations 1981 (“the 1981 Regulations”) as follows.

The fee payable for a certificate of initial fitness is increased by 50% from £179 to £269 on the first application in respect of a public service vehicle which, when equipped with seat belts otherwise than as required by regulation 47 of the Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986, is not of a type for which the manufacturer holds any of certain approvals relating to seat belt anchorage points.

The fee payable for a certificate of initial fitness is increased by 50% from £143 to £215 on the first application in any other case.

The fee payable for a certificate of initial fitness is increased by 50% from £143 to £215 on any subsequent application when the test which that application will require includes a test of stability under regulation 6 of the 1981 Regulations. The fee payable for a certificate of initial fitness in any subsequent application in any other case is increased by 50% from £17 to £26.

The fees payable for various type approvals are increased from £830, £77, £410 and £1776 to respectively £1245, £114, £615 and £2664 (increases of 50%, 48%, 50% and 50% respectively).

The fee payable for a certificate of conformity is increased by 50% from £16 to £24.

The fee payable for a duplicate certificate is increased by 50% from £11 to £17.

A full regulatory impact assessment of the effect that this instrument will have on the costs of business is available from the Department for Transport, 5th Floor, Southside, 105 Victoria Street, London SW1E 6DT (telephone number: 020 7944 2455). A copy has been placed in the library of each House of Parliament.

(1)

1981 c. 14; section 52(1) was amended by the Transport Act 1985 (c. 67) (“the 1985 Act”), Schedule 1, paragraph 7, Schedule 2, Part II, paragraph 4(14) and Schedule 8, and by the Deregulation and Contracting Out Act 1994 (c. 40), section 66(2); section 60(1) was amended by the 1985 Act, section 134(2), Schedule 2, Part II, paragraph 4(18) and Schedule 8; section 60(1A) was inserted by the 1985 Act, section 134(2); and section 61(2) was amended by the 1985 Act, section 135(1) and Schedule 8.

(2)

S.I. 1988/643, which was made under the Finance (No.2) Act 1987 (c. 51), section 102. The relevant entries in S.I. 1988/643 are Schedule 1, Table V, items 1 and 2A.

(3)

S.I. 1981/257; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1986/370, 1988/340, 1997/84, 1998/1670, 2000/1431, 2001/1649, 2002/489 and 2003/1817.