The Motor Vehicles (Tests) Regulations 1981

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25.(1) An entry in the electronic record that the prescribed statutory requirements are complied with in relation to a vehicle shall not be made unless the authorised examiner or, as the case may be, the designated council at whose vehicle testing station the examination of the vehicle was carried out has paid to the Secretary of State the sum of £1.19.

(2) Every authorised examiner and every designated council shall make such payments to the Secretary of State in anticipation of charges that may become payable by them under paragraph (1) as will, in the opinion of the examiner or council, ensure that the requirements of regulation 15(1)(a) are capable of being met as regards examinations at each of their vehicle testing stations.

(3) Payments under paragraph (2)—

(a)must be designated by the examiner or council concerned as referable to a named vehicle testing station of the examiner or council; and

(b)may only be of an amount equal to the charge for 100 entries of the description mentioned in paragraph (1), or any multiple of 100.]