The Motor Vehicles (Approval) (Fees) Regulations 2001

Fees-application for Minister’s approval certificate

5.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2), the fee prescribed for the purposes of regulation 6(7)(d) of the Approval Regulations, in respect of a further application, is—

(a) £30 in the case of any passenger vehicle; and

(b) £15 in the case of any goods vehicle.

(2) Where the time appointed for the examination of a vehicle for the purposes of such an application is, at the applicant’s request, out of hours, the fee prescribed by paragraph (1) shall be increased by—

(a) £15 in the case of any passenger vehicle; and

(b) £6 in the case of any goods vehicle,

such additional amount being payable before the examination is carried out.

(3) Any fee which would otherwise be payable by virtue of regulation 6(7)(d) of the Approval Regulations, in respect of a further application, shall not be payable if, by agreement, the vehicle is submitted for examination at the place at which it was previously examined before the end of the fifth day following that examination on which the Secretary of State will accept vehicles for examination and—

(a) the requirements of paragraph (4) are met in the case of any passenger vehicle; or

(b) the requirements of paragraph (5) are met in the case of any goods vehicle.

(4) The requirements of this paragraph are that the further application must be due only to a failure to comply with—

(a) the requirements of one or more of the following items of the Table in Schedule 3 to the Approval Regulations—

(i) item 6 in so far as those requirements are not those relating to angles of visibility or position;

(ii) item 8;

(iii) item 17 in so far as there are no more than three separate examples of a failure to comply with those requirements;

(iv) item 18 in so far as there are no more than three separate examples of a failure to comply with those requirements;

(v) item 20, 21 or 22;

(b) the requirements of one or more items of the Table in Schedule 3 to the Approval Regulations in respect of which sufficient documentary evidence is produced to the Secretary of State before the examination to satisfy him as to compliance with those requirements;

(c) the requirement in item 11 of the Table in Schedule 4 to display a child restraint warning label,

or any combination of sub-paragraphs (a), (b) or (c) above.

(5) The requirements of this paragraph are that the further application must be due only to a failure to comply with the requirements of—

(a) item 22 of the Table in Schedule 3 to the Approval Regulations;

(b) one or more items of that Table in respect of which sufficient documentary evidence is produced to the Secretary of State before the examination to satisfy him as to compliance with the requirements of those items; or

(c) item 25 of the Table in Schedule 3 to the Approval Regulations.