The Public Service Vehicles (Conditions of Fitness, Equipment, Use and Certification) (Amendment) Regulations 1989

Statutory Instruments

1989 No. 322

PUBLIC PASSENGER TRANSPORT

The Public Service Vehicles (Conditions of Fitness, Equipment, Use and Certification) (Amendment) Regulations 1989

Made

2nd March 1989

Laid before Parliament

10th March 1989

Coming into force

3rd April 1989

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

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Public Service Vehicles (Conditions of Fitness, Equipment, Use and Certification) (Amendment) Regulations 1989 and shall come into force on 3rd April 1989.

2.  The Public Service Vehicles (Conditions of Fitness, Equipment, Use and Certification) Regulations 1981(3) 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 shall be substituted the amounts specified in column 3 of the Table.

TABLE

(1)	(2)	(3)
Regulation	Existing amount	Substituted amount
46(2)(a)	£110	£115
46(2)(b)(i)	£110	£115
46(2)(b)(ii)	£13	£14
50(a)	£640	£665
	£60	£63
50(b)	£320	£330
50(c)	£1370	£1425
57(5)	£7.50	£7.75

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State

Peter Bottomley

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,

Department of Transport

2nd March 1989

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 so that–

(a) the fee payable for a certificate of initial fitness is increased from £110 to £115, both on the first application, and on any subsequent application when the test includes a test of stability under regulation 6. The fee payable for the certificate on any other subsequent application is increased from £13 to £14;

(b) the fees payable for type approvals are increased from £640, £60, £320 and £1370 to respectively £665, £63, £330 and £1425; and

(c) the fee payable for the issue of a duplicate certificate is increased from £7.50 to £7.75.

(1)

1981 c. 14; section 52(1) was amended by the Transport Act 1985 (c. 67) (“the 1985 Act”), Schedule 1, para. 7, Schedule 2, Part II, para. 4(14) and Schedule 8; section 60(1) was amended by the 1985 Act, s.134(2), Schedule 2, para. 4(18) and Schedule 8; and section 61(2) by the 1985 Act, Schedule 8.

(2)

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

(3)

S.I. 1981/257; the relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1984/1763, 1986/370 and 1988/340.