The Goods Vehicles (Plating and Testing) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1993

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Goods Vehicles (Plating and Testing) Regulations 1988 (“the 1988 Regulations”) as follows–

(a) The fee payable on an application for a first examination or periodical test undergoes the changes shown in the Table below.

(b) The fee for a re–test or a further re–test within fourteen days after the examination or earlier re–test is reduced from £17.60 to £16.60 in the case of a motor vehicle and from £9.70 to £8.30 in the case of a trailer. The fee for re–tests in other circumstances undergoes the changes shown in the Table below.

(c) The fee payable on a request for an amendment to a plating certificate following a notifiable alteration or for a re–examination where a particular in the certificate is or may be no longer applicable is reduced from £13.90 to £13.50.

As can be seen from the Table, the amendments introduce different fees for vehicle tests according to the number of axles.

TABLE

Description of Vehicle	Old Fee	New Fee
	£	£
Motor vehicle with 2 axles	34.70	32.70
Motor vehicle with 3 axles	34.70	33.70
Motor vehicle with 4 or more axles	34.70	34.70
Trailer with 1 axle	17.90	16.70
Trailer with 2 axles	17.90	17.10
Trailer with 3 or more axles	17.90	17.90

Regulation 3(3) of the 1988 Regulations provided that in counting the number of axles of a vehicle, where the centres of the areas of contact between all the wheels and the road surface can be included between any two vertical planes at right angles to the longitudinal axis of the vehicle less than 1.02 metres apart, those wheels are to be treated as constituting one axle. These Regulations amend regulation 3(3) by reducing the relevant distance to 0.5 metres.

The opportunity has also been taken to make some drafting amendments to regulation 16 of the 1988 Regulations.