The Motor Vehicles (Tests) (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 1991

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations further amend the Motor Vehicles (Tests) Regulations 1981 as follows.

Amendments coming into force on 1st August 1991

1.  Fees for test examinations are increased as follows:

(a) motor bicycles not having a side car attached, from £9.30 to £10;

(b) vehicles in Class III (“light motor vehicles” other than motor bicycles) or motor bicycles with a side car attached, from £15.50 to £16.65;

(c) vehicles in Class IV (“motor cars” or “heavy motor cars” not being vehicles in Class III, V, VI or VII), from £15.50 to £16.65;

(d) vehicles in Class V (“large passenger-carrying vehicles”, particular public service vehicles and play buses), from £15.50 to £19.30;

(e) vehicles in Class VII (goods vehicles with a design gross weight more than 3000 kgs but not more than 3500 kgs), from £18 to £19.30.

2.  In the case of the vehicles mentioned above, the fee for a duplicate test certificate is one half of the relevant fee.

3.  No fee shall be payable for re-examinations of vehicles other than in Class VI (Class VI consists of public service vehicles other than such vehicles in Class V) if–

(a) the vehicle is submitted for re-examination at the same vehicle testing station where it failed the examination before the end of the next working day; and

(b) the re-examination relates to one or more of the following matters – audible warning instruments, direction indicators, lamps, rear retro reflectors, seat belts (but not anchorages) and windscreen cleaning.

Fee for further examination is omitted. This covered vehicles brought within 14 days to any vehicle testing station both for repair and further examination

4.  The fee for the supply of 100 forms of test certificate is increased from £35.50 to £44.50.

5.  The prescribed statutory requirements for a test of a Class VI vehicle will include emissions. This corrects an omission from the amendments effected by the Motor Vehicles (Tests) (Amendment) (No. 1) Regulations 1991, (S.I. 1991/253).

6.  Drafting amendments are made to regulation 20(7) (re-examinations of Class VI vehicles for which no fee is payable) and to Schedule 2(f). The definition of “Community Recording Equipment Regulation” is transferred from Schedule 2 to regulation 3 (interpretation).

Amendments coming into force on 1st November 1991

7.  Fees for certain test examinations will be further increased (further to those mentioned in paragraph 1 of this note) as follows:

(a) vehicles in Class IV, from £16.65 to £20; and

(b) vehicles in Class VII, from £19.30 to £22.60.

8.  The prescribed statutory requirements for vehicles in Classes I to V and VII will include emissions.

9.  No fee shall be payable for re-examinations of vehicles other than in Class VI in the circumstances mentioned in paragraph 3(a) of this note when the re-examination relates to emissions.

10.  The definition of “light motor vehicles” (Class III vehicles) will be restricted to motor vehicles with three wheels, as opposed to those with three or more wheels as at present. Four wheeled “light motor vehicles” will come within Class IV.