The Public Service Vehicles (Conditions of Fitness, Equipment, Use and Certification) (Amendment) Regulations 2005

Statutory Instruments

2005 No. 1403

PUBLIC PASSENGER TRANSPORT

The Public Service Vehicles (Conditions of Fitness, Equipment, Use and Certification) (Amendment) Regulations 2005

Made

24th May 2005

Laid before Parliament

27th May 2005

Coming into force

1st July 2005

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

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Public Service Vehicles (Conditions of Fitness, Equipment, Use and Certification) (Amendment) Regulations 2005 and shall come into force on 1st July 2005.

Amendment

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

(2) In regulation 46—

(a) for the words in paragraph (2)(a) there shall be substituted the words “£215 on the first application, and”; and

(b) paragraphs (3),(4) and (5) shall be omitted.

Signed by the authority of the Secretary of State

Dr Stephen Ladyman

Minister of State

Department for Transport

24th May 2005

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.

Regulation 2 provides that the fee payable for the issue of a certificate of initial fitness on the first application is £215 in every case, removing the separate fee for the examination of seat belts in public service vehicles.

A full regulatory impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as it has no impact on the costs of business.

(1)

1981 c. 14; section 60(1)(e) was substituted by the Deregulation and Contracting Out Act 1994, section 66(5).

(2)

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

(3)

S.I. 1981/257; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1984/1763, 1998/1670, and 2004/1880.