Goods Vehicles (Testing) (Fees) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003

Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland

2003 No. 102

ROAD TRAFFIC AND VEHICLES

Goods Vehicles (Testing) (Fees) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003

Made

25th February 2003

Coming into operation

1st April 2003

The Department of the Environment, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by Articles 65(1) and (2), 67(1) and 110(2) of the Road Traffic (Northern Ireland) Order 1995(1) and of every other power enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Goods Vehicles (Testing) (Fees) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003 and shall come into operation on 1st April 2003.

Amendment of the Goods Vehicles (Testing) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1995

2.  In the Goods Vehicles (Testing) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1995(2) for Schedule 1 there shall be substituted –

Regulations 10(2), 13(3) and (4) and 17(4)

“SCHEDULE 1 FEES

PART I fee payable on application under regulations 10(2), 13(3) or 17(4)

(1)	(2)
Class of Vehicle	Amount of Fee
3,500 kilograms maximum gross weight or under	£28·00
Over 3,500 kilograms maximum gross weight –
(i) 2 axle rigid vehicle	£35·00
(ii) 3 axle rigid vehicle	£45·00
(iii) 4 axle rigid vehicle	£56·00
(iv) articulated vehicle having a 2 axle drawing vehicle	£39·00
(v) articulated vehicle having a 3 axle drawing vehicle	£51·00
Trailer –
(i) 1 axle trailer	£32·50
(ii) 2 axle trailer	£33·50
(iii) 3 axle trailer	£34·50

PART II fee payable on application under regulation 13(4)

(1)	(2)
Class of Vehicle	Amount of Fee
3,500 kilograms maximum gross weight or under	£17·50
Over 3,500 kilograms maximum gross weight	£17·50
Articulated vehicle	£18·50
Trailer	£18·50”.

Revocation

3.  The Goods Vehicles (Testing) (Fees) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002(3) are hereby revoked.

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of the Environment on 25th February 2003.

L.S.

Stanley Duncan

A senior officer of the

Department of the Environment

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations.)

These Regulations amend the Goods Vehicles (Testing) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1995 (“the principal Regulations”) by increasing the fees as follows –

(1) For a vehicle 3,500 kilograms maximum gross weight or under—

(a) the fee payable on application for a first test, a periodical test, a re-test or an appeal is increased from £25·00 to £28·00; and

(b) the fee payable where an application for a re-test is made within 21 days from the date of service of a notice of refusal of a goods vehicle test certificate is increased from £16·00 to £17·50.

(2) For vehicles exceeding 3,500 kilograms maximum gross weight –

(a) the fee payable on application for a first test, a periodical test, a re-test or an appeal is increased as follows –

(i) for a 2 axle rigid vehicle, from £32·00 to £35·00;

(ii) for a 3 axle rigid vehicle, from £42·00 to £45·00;

(iii) for a 4 axle rigid vehicle, from £53·00 to £56·00;

(iv) for an articulated vehicle having a 2 axle drawing vehicle, from £36·00 to £39·00; and

(v) for an articulated vehicle having a 3 axle drawing vehicle, from £48·00 to £51·00.

These Regulations further amend the principal Regulations by dividing the vehicle category trailer into 3 categories (previously 1 category) –

(a) for trailers the previous single fee of £33·50 payable on application for a first test, a periodical test, a re-test or an appeal is now:

(i) for a 1 axle trailer £32·50;

(ii) for a 2 axle trailer £33·50;

(iii) for a 3 axle trailer £34·50.

(b) for all trailer categories the fee payable where an application for a re-test is made within 21 days from the date of service of a notice of refusal of a goods vehicle test certificate remains unchanged at £18·50.

The Goods Vehicles (Testing) (Fees) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002 are revoked as a consequence of these Regulations.

(1)

S.I. 1995/2994 (N.I. 18); see Article 2(2) for the definition of “the Department” and “prescribed”

(2)

S.R. 1995 No. 450; relevant amending Regulations are S.R. 1996 No. 139, S.R. 1998 No. 75 and S.R. 2002 No. 48

(3)

S.R. 2002 No. 48