Statutory Instrument 1991 No. 1122

The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Large Goods and Passenger-Carrying Vehicles) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1991

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1991 No. 1122

ROAD TRAFFIC

PUBLIC PASSENGER TRANSPORT

The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Large Goods and Passenger-Carrying Vehicles) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1991

The Secretary of State for Transport, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 89(3) and (4)(b), 105(1) and (4) and 108(1)^[1] of the Road Traffic Act 1988^[2] , and of all other enabling powers, and after consultation with representative organisations in accordance with section 195(2) of that Act, and with the approval of the Treasury, hereby makes the following Regulations.

    1.    These Regulations may be cited as the Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Large Goods and Passenger-Carrying Vehicles) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1991 and shall come into force on 3rd June 1991.

    2.—(1)  The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Large Goods and Passenger-Carrying Vehicles) Regulations 1990^[3] shall be amended in accordance with the following provision of this regulation.

    (2)  In regulation 15 (Applications for tests) for paragraph (2) there shall be substituted the following paragraph—
"  (2)  An applicant for such an appointment shall, when making the application, specify the category of vehicle in respect of which he desires to take the test and pay—
(a) £45 if the application for the test is made before 3rd June 1991;

(b) £48 if the application is made on or after that date and the test is to be conducted on a day other than a Saturday;

(c) £75 if the application is made on or after that dateand the test is to be conducted on a Saturday."

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport

Christopher Chope

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Department of Transport

30th April 1991
We approve the making of these Regulations

Thomas Sackville

Irvine Patnick

Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury

1st May 1991

These Regulations amend regulation 15 of the Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Large Goods and Passenger-Carrying Vehicles) Regulations 1990 so as to—
(a) increase the fee payable for a test to drive a large goods or passenger-carrying vehicle, and

(b) introduce a premium fee for a driving test taken on a Saturday.

The fee for a test to drive an LGV or PCV which is taken on a week-day is increased from £45 to £48. The fee for the same test, if taken on a Saturday, is £75.

[1] See the definition of"prescribed" and"regulations" . back

[2] 1988 c. 52; section 89(4)(b) is to be read with the Department of Transport (Fees) Order 1988 (S.I. 1988/643), where the relevant entry is in Schedule 1, Table VI, item 1A. Table VI was inserted by the Department of Transport (Fees) (Amendment) Order 1991 (S.I. 1991/811). back

[3] S.I. 1990/2612; there are no relevant amending instruments. back