Motor Vehicles (Taxi Drivers' Licences) (Fees) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996

Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland

1996 No. 142

ROAD TRAFFIC AND VEHICLES

Motor Vehicles (Taxi Drivers' Licences) (Fees) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996

Made

2nd April 1996

Coming into operation

3rd June 1996

The Department of the Environment, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by Articles 79A(2) and 218(1) of the Road Traffic (Northern Ireland) Order 1981(1), and of every other power enabling it in that behalf, and with the approval of the Department of Finance and Personnel hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Motor Vehicles (Taxi Drivers' Licences) (Fees) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996 and shall come into operation on 3rd June 1996.

Amendment of the Motor Vehicles (Taxi Drivers' Licences) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1991

2.  In regulation 4(1) (fee for a licence) of the Motor Vehicles (Taxi Drivers' Licences) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1991(2) for “£60” there shall be substituted “£58·50”.

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of the Environment on .

L.S.

Trevor Pearson

Assistant Secretary

2nd April 1996

The Department of Finance and Personnel hereby approves these Regulations.

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Finance and Personnel on

L.S.

J. G. Sullivan

Assistant Secretary

2nd April 1996

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations.)

These Regulations further amend the Motor Vehicles (Taxi Drivers' Licences) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1991 by decreasing the fee for a renewal of a licence from £60 to £58·50.

The fees for a first licence and a duplicate licence remain unchanged.

(1)

1981/154 (N.I. 1); see Article 2(2) for the definition of “Department” and “prescribed”; Article 79A was inserted by Part II of Sch. 3 to S.I. 1991/197 (N.I. 3)

(2)

S.R. 1991 No. 454; relevant amending Regulations are S.R. 1995 No. 153