Statutory Instruments

1991 No. 336

ROAD TRAFFIC

The Removal, Storage and Disposal of Vehicles (Prescribed Sums and Charges etc.) (Amendment) Regulations 1991

Made

25th February 1991

Laid before Parliament

5th March 1991

Coming into force

1st April 1991

In exercise of the powers conferred upon me by sections 4(5) and (6), 5(1)(a) and (b) and 11(1) of the Refuse Disposal (Amenity) Act 1978(1) and sections 101(4) and (5), 102(2)(a) and (b) and 142(1) of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984(2) and, in respect of matters prescribed for the purposes of provisions of that Act of 1984, after consultation with representative organisations as required by section 134(2) of that Act, I hereby make the following Regulations:

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Removal, Storage and Disposal of Vehicles (Prescribed Sums and Charges etc.) (Amendment) Regulations 1991 and shall come into force on 1st April 1991.

(2) In these Regulationss, “the 1989 Regulations” means the Removal, Storage and Disposal of Vehicles (Prescribed Sums and Charges etc.) Regulations 1989(3).

(3) The Removal, Storage and Disposal of Vehicles (Prescribed Sums and Charges etc.) (Amendment) Regulations 1990(4) are hereby revoked.

2.—(1) Regulations 3(1)(a), (2)(a) and (3) of the 1989 Regulations shall be amended by the substitution of “£85” for “£80” in each place where it occurs.

(2) Regulations 3(1)(b), (2)(b) and (4) of the 1989 Regulations shall be amended by the substitution of “£12” for “£10” in each place where it occurs.

Kenneth Baker

One of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State

Home Office

25th February 1991

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Removal, Storage and Disposal of Vehicles (Prescribed Sums and Charges etc.) Regulations 1989 (as amended by the Removal, Storage and Disposal of Vehicles (Prescribed Sums and Charges etc.) (Amendment) Regulations 1990) so as to increase, with effect from 1st April 1991, the sum or charge payable under the 1989 Regulations in respect of the removal by the police or a local authority of a vehicle from £80 to £85 and the daily storage rate under the Regulations in respect of a vehicle whilst it is in the custody of the police or a local authority from £10 to £12.

(3)

S.I. 1987/744 (amended by S.I. 1990/955).

(4)

S.I. 1990/955.