The Road Vehicles (Registration and Licensing) (Amendment) Regulations 2007

Statutory Instruments

2007 No. 498

road traffic

The Road Vehicles (Registration and Licensing) (Amendment) Regulations 2007

Made

21st February 2007

Laid before Parliament

27th February 2007

Coming into force

1st April 2007

The Secretary of State for Transport makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 57 and 61B of the Vehicle Excise and Registration Act 1994(1).

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Road Vehicles (Registration and Licensing) (Amendment) Regulations 2007 and shall come into force on 1st April 2007.

Increase in fees

2.—(1) Paragraph 13 of Schedule 2 to the Road Vehicles (Registration and Licensing) Regulations 2002(2) shall be amended as follows.

(2) In the paragraphs specified in column (1) of the Table below, for the amounts specified in column (2) there shall be substituted the amounts specified in column (3).

Table

(1)	(2)	(3)
Paragraph	Existing Amount (£)	Substituted Amount (£)
13(1)(a)	27	28
13(1)(b)	16	17
13(2)	10	11

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State

S.J. Ladyman

Minister of State

Department for Transport

21st February 2007

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Road Vehicles (Registration and Licensing) Regulations 2002 (“the 2002 Regulations”).

The Vehicle Excise and Registration Act 1994 (“the 1994 Act”) provides for reduced rates of vehicle excise duty to be applicable to certain buses, haulage vehicles and heavy goods vehicles (“eligible vehicles”) which meet the reduced pollution requirements. Regulation 5 of, and Schedule 2 to, the 2002 Regulations prescribe the reduced pollution requirements for the purposes of the 1994 Act and provide for the issue of reduced pollution certificates where the requirements are found to be satisfied.

The fees for such examinations are prescribed in paragraph 13 of Schedule 2 to the 2002 Regulations. Where an examination of a vehicle is carried out under paragraph 8 of Schedule 2 to the 2002 Regulations (re-examination of a vehicle for which a reduced pollution certificate is in force) no fee is payable.

Regulation 2 increases the fees prescribed in paragraph 13 of Schedule 2 in relation to the examination of eligible vehicles. These fees are set out in the Table below with the percentage increase since the fees were last fixed shown in brackets.

Table

Nature of service	Existing fee (£)	Substituted fee (£)
Where the examination of the vehicle is not carried at the same time as an examination of the vehicle for other specified purposes	27	28 (3.7%)
Where the examination of the vehicle is carried out at the same time as an examination of the vehicle for other specified purposes	16	17 (6.3%)
Where the applicant requests an out of hours examination of the vehicle	10	11 (10%)

The fee for examinations carried out, at the applicant’s request, at a vehicle testing station not provided by the Secretary of State remains unchanged at £6.

A full regulatory impact assessment of the effect that this instrument will have on the costs of business and the voluntary sector is available from the Department for Transport, Southside, 105 Victoria Street, London SW1E 6DT (telephone number: 020 7944 2455). A copy has been placed in the library of each House of Parliament. The regulatory impact assessment is annexed to the Explanatory Memorandum which is available alongside the instrument on the OPSI website www.opsi.gov.uk.

(1)

1994 c. 22; section 57 was amended by the Finance Act 1996 (c. 8), section 23 and Schedule 2, paragraph 16, and by the Finance Act 2002 (c. 23), sections 19(1) and 141, Schedule 5, paragraphs 1 and 16 and Schedule 40. Section 61B was inserted by the Finance Act 1998 (c. 36), section 16 and Schedule 1, paragraph 2, and by the Finance Act 2006 (c. 25), section 14.

(2)

S.I. 2002/2742; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 2003/2335 and 2004/1872.