Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Amendment) (Test Fees) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996

Amendment of the Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1994

2.  For regulation 15 (fees in respect of tests) of the Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1994(1) there shall be substituted—

“15.—(1) The following provisions of this regulation shall apply in the case of a person who submits himself for a test or applies for an appointment for a test.

(2) Subject to paragraph (5), the fee payable in respect of a test to be taken in any vehicle, except a motor cycle, and conducted on a week day other than a Saturday by an examiner appointed under paragraph (1)(a) of regulation 13 shall be—

(a)in the case of a test which is due to commence before half past four in the afternoon, £27·00; and

(b)in the case of a test which is due to commence at or after that time, £38·50.

(3) Subject to paragraph (5), the fee payable in respect of a test to be taken in any vehicle, except a motor cycle, and conducted on a Saturday, by an examiner appointed under paragraph (1)(a) of regulation 13 shall be £38·50.

(4) The fees payable in respect of a test to be taken on a motor cycle where that test is to be conducted on the days and times referred to in paragraphs (2)(a), (b) and (3) by an examiner referred to in those paragraphs, shall be respectively £38·00, £48·50 and £48·50.

(5) No fee shall be payable in respect of a test to be taken in an invalid carriage.

(6) No fee shall be payable in respect of a test conducted by persons or bodies authorised in sub-paragraph (b) of regulation 13(1).”.