The Public Service Vehicles (Conditions of Fitness, Equipment, Use and Certification) (Amendment) Regulations 1993

Statutory Instruments

1993 No. 3012

PUBLIC PASSENGER TRANSPORT

The Public Service Vehicles (Conditions of Fitness, Equipment, Use and Certification) (Amendment) Regulations 1993

Made

2nd December 1993

Laid before Parliament

7th December 1993

Coming into force

2nd January 1994

The Secretary of State for Transport, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 10(1), 52(1)(a) and 60 of the Public Passenger Vehicles Act 1981(1) and by the Department of Transport (Fees) Order 1988(2), and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, and after consultation with representative organisations in accordance with section 61(2) of that Act, hereby makes the following Regulations:

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Public Service Vehicles (Conditions of Fitness, Equipment, Use and Certification) (Amendment) Regulations 1993 and shall come into force on 2nd January 1994.

2.  The Public Service Vehicles (Conditions of Fitness, Equipment, Use and Certification) Regulations 1981(3) shall be amended in accordance with the provisions of these Regulations.

3.  In the regulations specified in column 1 of the Table below for the amounts specified in column 2 of the Table there shall be substituted the amounts specified in column 3 of the Table.

Table

(1)	(2)	(3)
Regulation	Existing Amount	Substituted Amount
46(2)(a)	£136.50	£129.00
46(2)(b)(i)	£136.50	£129.00
46(2)(b)(ii)	£16.30	£15.40
50(a)	£788.00	£744.70
	£74.00	£69.90
50(b)	£390.00	£368.60
50(c)	£1685.00	£1592.30
57(5)	£9.30	£8.80

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport

Robert Key

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,

Department of Transport

2nd December 1993

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Public Service Vehicles (Conditions of Fitness, Equipment, Use and Certification) Regulations 1981 as follows.

(a) The fee payable for a certificate of initial fitness is reduced from £136.50 to £129.00, both on the first application, and on any subsequent application when the test which that application will require includes a test of stability under Regulation 6. The fee payable for the certificate on any other subsequent application is reduced from £16.30 to £15.40.

(b) The fees payable for type approvals are reduced from £788.00, £74.00, £390.00 and £1685.00 to respectively £744.70, £69.90, £368.60 and £1592.30.

(c) The fee payable for the issue of a duplicate certificate is reduced from £9.30 to £8.80.

(1)

1981 c. 14; section 52(1) was amended by the Transport Act 1985 (c. 67) (“the 1985 Act”), Schedule 1, para.7, Schedule 2, Part II, para. 4(14) and Schedule 8; section 60(1) was amended by the 1985 Act, section 134(2), Schedule 2, para.4(18) and Schedule 8; and section 61(2) by the 1985 Act, Schedule 8.

(2)

S.I.1988/643, which was made under section 102 of the Finance (No. 2) Act 1987 (c. 51).The relevant references in S.I.1988/643 are items 1 and 2A of Table V of Schedule 1.

(3)

S.I.1981/257; relevant amending instruments are S.I.1984/1763, 1986/370, 1988/340, 1989/322, 1990/450, 1991/456 and 1992/565.