The Road Vehicles (Registration and Licensing) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1993

Statutory Instruments

1993 No. 1759

NORTHERN IRELAND

The Road Vehicles (Registration and Licensing) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1993

Made

13th July 1993

Laid before Parliament

16th July 1993

Coming into force

9th August 1993

The Secretary of State for Transport, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 12(6) and 37(1) and (2) of the Vehicles (Excise) Act 1971(1) with the approval of the Treasury, and of all other enabling powers, hereby makes the following Regulations:—

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Road Vehicles (Registration and Licensing) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1993 and shall come into force on 9th August 1993.

2.  The Road Vehicles (Registration and Licensing) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1973(2) shall be further amended as follows.

3.  In regulation 7(1), for “£3.50” there shall be substituted “£5.50”.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport.

Robert Key

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,

Department of Transport

9th July 1993

We approve

Nicholas Baker

Irvine Patnick

Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury

13th July 1993

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations further amend the Road Vehicles (Registration and Licensing) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1973 so as to increase the fee for the issue of a duplicate licence from £3.50 to £5.50. This fee was last increased in 1986.

(1)

1971 c. 10. The Act was extended to Northern Ireland by section 10 of the Finance Act 1991 (c. 31).

(2)

S.R. and O. (N.I.) 1973 No. 490; relevant amending instrument is S.I. 1986/706.