The Public Service Vehicles (Conditions of Fitness, Equipment, Use and Certification) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2005

Statutory Instruments

2005 No. 2342

PUBLIC PASSENGER TRANSPORT

The Public Service Vehicles (Conditions of Fitness, Equipment, Use and Certification) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2005

Made

20th August 2005

Laid before Parliament

30th August 2005

Coming into force

30th September 2005

The Secretary of State for Transport, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 10(1), 52(1) and 60 of the Public Passenger Vehicles Act 1981(1) and by virtue of the Department of Transport (Fees) Order 1988(2), and after consultation with representative organisations in accordance with section 61(2) of that Act, hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Public Service Vehicles (Conditions of Fitness, Equipment, Use and Certification) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2005 and shall come into force on 30th September 2005.

Increase in fees

2.—(1) The Public Service Vehicles (Conditions of Fitness, Equipment, Use and Certification) Regulations 1981(3) shall be amended as follows.

(2) In the regulations specified in column (1) of the following Table for the amounts specified in column (2) there shall be substituted the amounts specified in column (3).

TABLE

(1)	(2)	(3)
Regulation	Existing Amount (£)	Substituted Amount (£)
46(2)(a)	215	243
46(2)(b)(i)	215	243
46(2)(b)(ii)	26	29
50(a)	1245	1407
	114	129
50(b)	615	695
50(c)	2664	3010
53	24	27
57(5)	17	19

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State

S J Ladyman

Minister of State

Department for Transport

20th August 2005

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Public Service Vehicles (Conditions of Fitness, Equipment, Use and Certification) Regulations 1981 (“the 1981 Regulations”) as follows.

Regulation 2 makes amendments to regulations 46(2), 50, 53 and 57(5) of the 1981 Regulations. Regulation 46(2) prescribes the fees payable for inspections of public service vehicles. Regulation 50 prescribes the fees payable for vehicle type approval. Regulation 50 prescribes the fee payable for a certificate of conformity. Regulation 57(5) prescribes the fee payable for the issue of a duplicate certificate.

The increased fees are set out in the Table below. The percentage increases since the fees were last fixed are shown in brackets.

Table

Nature of fee	Existing fee (£)	Substituted fee (£)
Certificate of initial fitness on the first application in respect of a public service vehicle.	215	243 (13%)
Certificate of initial fitness on any subsequent application when the test which that application will require includes a test of stability under regulation 6 of the 1981 Regulations.	215	243 (13%)
Certificate of initial fitness on any subsequent application in any other case.	26	29 (11.5%)
Vehicle type approval pursuant to an application under regulation 48(2) of the 1981 Regulations.	1245	1407 (13%)
Vehicle type approval where vehicle conforms to a vehicle already approved.	114	129 (13.2%)
Vehicle type approval pursuant to an application under regulation 48(3) of the 1981 Regulations.	615	695 (13%)
Vehicle type approval in any other case.	2664	3010 (13%)
Certificate of conformity	24	27 (12.5%)
Duplicate certificate	17	19 (11.8%)

A full regulatory impact assessment of the effect that this instrument will have on the costs of business is available from the Department for Transport, Zone 2/05, Great Minster House, 76 Marsham Street, London SW1P 4DR (telephone number: 020 7944 2455). A copy has been placed in the library of each House of Parliament. The regulatory impact assessment may also be accessed on the HMSO website www.opsi.gov.uk.

(1)

1981 c. 14; section 52(1) was amended by the Transport Act 1985 (c. 67) (“the 1985 Act”), Schedule 1, paragraph 7, Schedule 2, Part II, paragraph 4(14) and Schedule 8, and by the Deregulation and Contracting Out Act 1994 (c. 40), section 66(2); section 60(1) was amended by the 1985 Act, section 134(2), Schedule 2, Part II, paragraph 4(18) and Schedule 8; section 60(1A) was inserted by the 1985 Act, section 134(2); and section 61(2) was amended by the 1985 Act, section 135(1) and Schedule 8.

(2)

S.I. 1988/643, which was made under the Finance (No. 2) Act 1987 (c. 51), section 102. The relevant entries in S.I. 1988/643 are Schedule 1, Table V, items 1 and 2A.

(3)

S.I. 1981/257; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1986/370, 1988/340, 1997/84, 1998/1670, 2001/1431, 2001/1649, 2002/489, 2003/1817, 2004/1880 and 2005/1403.