The Motor Vehicles (Tests) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2000

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations further amend the Motor Vehicles (Tests) Regulations 1981 (“the 1981 Regulations”). Those Regulations make provision for certain motor vehicles to be examined by persons authorised by the Secretary of State and for test certificates to be issued for vehicles that are found to meet certain requirements.

Regulation 20 of the 1981 Regulations prescribes the fees payable for examinations of vehicles pursuant to applications made under regulation 12 of those Regulations. Regulation 20 is amended by regulation 3 of these Regulations.

The fees (last fixed on 1st September 1999) payable for test examinations from 1st October 2000 (with the percentage increase shown in brackets), other than in the case of Class VI or VIa vehicles, are increased as follows—

(a) motor bicycles without a side car, from £13.04 to £13.70 (5.1%);

(b) motor bicycles with a side car, from £21.80 to £22.70 (4.1%);

(c) vehicles in Class III (“light motor vehicles” other than motor bicycles), from £25.63 to £26.60 (3.8%);

(d) vehicles in Class IV (“motor cars” and “heavy motor cars” not being vehicles within Class III, IVa, V, Va, VI, VIa, or VII—

(i) from £33.91 to £35.90 (5.9%) if the vehicle is a minibus, and

(ii) from £32.11 to £34.00 (5.9%) in any other case;

(e) vehicles in Class IVa (“minibuses”, other than those excluded by virtue of a certificate of initial fitness issued on or after 1st August 1998 or compliance with certain type approval requirements, not being vehicles within Class III, V, Va, VI or VIa, in respect of which any forward facing seat is fitted with a relevant seat belt), from £38.67 to £40.75 (5.4%).

(f) vehicles in Class V (“large passenger-carrying vehicles”, particular public service vehicles and “play buses” not being vehicles within Class Va)—

(i) from £53.36 to £54.15 (1.5%) if the vehicle is constructed or adapted to carry more than 16 passengers, and

(ii) from £39.18 to £41.70 (6.4%) in any other case;

(g) vehicles in Class Va (“large passenger-carrying vehicles”, particular public service vehicles and “play buses”, other than those excluded by virtue of a certificate of initial fitness issued on or after 1st August 1998 or compliance with certain type approval requirements, in respect of which any forward-facing seat is fitted with a relevant seat belt)—

(i) from £76.68 to £80.30 (4.7%) if the vehicle is constructed or adapted to carry more than 16 passengers, and

(ii) from £47.87 to £50.60 (5.7%) in any other case; and

(h) vehicles in Class VII (goods vehicles with a design gross weight of more than 3,000 but not more than 3,500 kgs), from £33.80 to £35.75 (5.8%).

In the case of the vehicles mentioned above, under regulations 21 and 23 of the 1981 Regulations the fee payable on an appeal against a notice of the refusal of a test certificate is the same amount as the fee payable under regulation 20(1) of those Regulations while the fee for a duplicate test certificate in respect of a motor bicycle without a side car is half this amount. These fees will be increased accordingly.

The fee payable for the supply of 100 forms of test certificate is increased from £58 to £94 (62%).

A regulatory impact assessment has been prepared and copies can be obtained from the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions, Zone 2/05, Great Minster House, 76 Marsham Street, London SW1P 4DR (Telephone [phone]). A copy has been placed in the library of each House of Parliament.