The Agricultural or Forestry Tractors and Tractor Components (Type Approval) (Fees) Regulations 1992

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations replace the Agricultural or Forestry Tractors and Tractor Components (Type Approval) (Fees) Regulations 1991 (“the previous Regulations ”) which are revoked by S.I. 1992/56). They are made in consequence of the functions of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food relating to the type approval of agricultural and forestry tractors and their components becoming functions of the Secretary of State by virtue of the Agricultural or Forestry Tractors and Tractor Components (Type Approval) (Amendment) Regulations 1992 (S.I. 1992/80).

The Regulations prescribe the fees payable for the examination of agricultural or forestry tractors and their components and the issue of documents in connection with the type-approval or component type-approval of such tractors and their components which conform to the requirements of the Community Directives listed in column 2 of Part B of Schedule 1, for the purposes of Council Directive 74/150/EEC (OJ No. L84, 28.3.74, p. 10), as amended, on the approximation of laws relating to the type-approval of wheeled agricultural or forestry tractors.

The Regulations essentially re-enact the provisions of the previous Regulations with references to the Secretary of State being substituted for references to the Minister of Agriculture Fisheries and Food. Changes have however been made in regulations 4 and 5.

Regulation 4, which relates to the tests identified by fee numbers 17 and 24 and 32 to 42 in Schedule 1, has been redrafted and consequential changes have been made to the figures shown in the Schedule against those numbers. However, the effect of these provisions is substantially the same as in the previous Regulations.

Regulation 5 has also been redrafted. It deals with the fee numbers marked with an asterisk in Schedule 1. If an examination involves tests identified by no more than four of those numbers those tests are ignored for the purposes of determining the fee. If an examination involves five or more of those tests, the four with the lowest amount shown in the Schedule are ignored. The corresponding provisions in the previous Regulations had effect only where more than one and less than five of those tests were involved.