The Public Service Vehicles (Conditions of Fitness, Equipment, Use and Certification) (Amendment) Regulations 1997

Statutory Instruments

1997 No. 84

PUBLIC PASSENGER TRANSPORT

The Public Service Vehicles (Conditions of Fitness, Equipment, Use and Certification) (Amendment) Regulations 1997

Made

20th January 1997

Laid before Parliament

28th January 1997

Coming into force

3rd March 1997

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 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 1997 and shall come into force on 3rd March 1997.

2.—(1) The Public Service Vehicles (Conditions of Fitness, Equipment, Use and Certification) Regulations 1981(3) shall be amended as follows.

(2) 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)	£129.00	£124.00
46(2)(b)(i)	£129.00	£124.00
46(2)(b)(ii)	£15.40	£15.00
50(a)	£744.70	£715.00
	£69.90	£67.00
50(b)	£368.60	£354.00
50(c)	£1592.30	£1530.00
57(5)	£8.80	£8.00

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport

John Bowis

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,

Department of Transport

20th January 1997

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 £129.00 to £124.00, 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 £15.40 to £15.00.

(b) The fees payable for type approvals are reduced from £744.70, £69.90, £368.60 and £1592.30 to respectively £715.00, £67.00, £354.00 and £1530.00.

(c) The fee payable for a duplicate certificate is reduced from £8.80 to £8.00.

(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; and by the Deregulation and Contracting Out Act 1994 (c. 40), section 66(2). Section 60(1) was amended by the 1985 Act, section 134(2), Schedule 2, Part II, para 4(18) and Schedule 8; section 60(1A) was inserted by the 1985 Act, section 134(2), and section 61(2) was amended 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, 1992/565 and 1993/3012.