The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1998

Statutory Instruments

1998 No. 528

ROAD TRAFFIC

The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1998

Made

3rd March 1998

Laid before Parliament

10th March 1998

Coming into force

1st April 1998

The Secretary of State for the Environment,Transport and the Regions, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 89(4)(b) and (5) and 108 (1)(1) of the Road Traffic Act 1988(2), after consulting with representative organisations in accordance with section 195(2) of that Act and with the approval of the Treasury(3), hereby makes the following Regulations:—

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1998 and shall come into force on 1st April 1998.

2.  The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) Regulations 1996(4) shall be further amended in accordance with regulation 3.

3.—(1) In regulation 27(6), for “£31.00” there shall be substituted “£32.75”.

(2) In regulation 45(5) for “£10” there shall be substituted “£15”.

(3) For Schedule 5 (fees for tests) there shall be substituted—

“FEES FOR TESTS

(1) Category or sub-category of vehicle	(2) Test, other than an extended driving test, commencing:		(3) Extended driving test commencing:
	(a) During normal hours	(b) Out of hours	(a) During normal hours	(b) Out of hours
1. A and P	£39.00	£52.00	£78.00	£104.00
2. B1, B, F, G, H and K	£32.75	£43.00	£65.50	£86.00
3. B1 (invalid carriages)	No fee	No fee	No fee	No fee
4. B+E, C1, C1+E, D1, D1+E, C, C+E, D and D+E	£73.50	£92.00	–	–”

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions

Helene Hayman

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,

Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions

2nd March 1998

We approve the making of these Regulations

Jim Dowd

Bob Ainsworth

Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury

3rd March 1998

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations further amend the Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/2824) by—

(a) increasing the fees for practical and unitary driving tests, as specified below, and for the London taxi drivers' test from £31 to £32.75;

(b) increasing from £10 to £15 the charge made for the supply of forms of practical test pass certificates to persons appointed to conduct tests by certain approved companies and public service vehicle operators.

The fees payable in respect of tests from 1st April 1998 (with the percentage increase and the date of the last change shown in brackets) are:—

ORDINARY TESTS

Type of vehicle	Tests commenced during normal hours	Tests commenced during evenings and weekends
Motor cycles and mopeds	£39 (2.6%, April 1997)	£52 (4%, April 1997)
Cars, tractors and minor categories	£32.75 (5.6%, April 1997)	£43 (4.9%, April 1997)
Cars with trailers, goods vehicles and passenger-carrying vehicles	£73.50 (13.1%, April 1997)	£92 (10.8%, April 1997)

EXTENDED TESTS

Type of vehicle	Tests commenced during normal hours	Test commenced at weekends
Cars	£65.50 (5.7%, April 1997)	£86 (4.9%, April 1997)
Motor cycles	£78 (2.6%, April 1997)	£104 (4%, April 1997)

(1)

See the definitions of “prescribed” and “regulations”.

(2)

1998 c. 52.

(3)

See section 105(4) of the Road Traffic Act 1988.

(4)

S.I. 1996/2824. The relevant amendments are by 1997/669.