The Road Vehicles (Registration and Licensing) (Amendment) Regulations 2005

Statutory Instruments

2005 No. 2344

ROAD TRAFFIC

The Road Vehicles (Registration and Licensing) (Amendment) Regulations 2005

Made

20th August 2005

Laid before Parliament

30th August 2005

Coming into force

30th September 2005

The Secretary of State for Transport, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 22(1)(h), 22A(2)(a) and 22A(3)(d) of the Vehicle Excise and Registration Act 1994(1) and by virtue of the Department of Transport (Fees) Order 1988(2), hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Road Vehicles (Registration and Licensing) (Amendment) Regulations 2005 and shall come into force on 30th September 2005.

Increase in fee

2.  In paragraph 7(1) of Schedule 3 to the Road Vehicles (Registration and Licensing) Regulations 2002(3) for “£35” there shall be substituted “£36”.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State

S J Ladyman

Minister of State

Department for Transport

20th August 2005

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Road Vehicles (Registration and Licensing) Regulations 2002 (“the 2002 Regulations”).

Regulation 15 of, and Schedule 3 to, the 2002 Regulations provide that where an insurer has informed the Secretary of State that a vehicle is uneconomical to repair or the registration document has been surrendered to the Secretary of State under regulation 20(5) of those Regulations, the vehicle must undergo an examination to confirm it is the registered vehicle, before a new registration document is issued. The examination is known as a “Vehicle Identity Check”.

Regulation 2 increases the fee for a Vehicle Identity Check, or for a further Vehicle Identity Check on appeal, by 2.86% from £35 to £36.

A full regulatory impact assessment of the effect that this instrument will have on the costs of business is available from the Department for Transport, Southside, 105 Victoria Street, London SW1E 6DT (telephone number: 020 7944 2455). A copy has been placed in the library of each House of Parliament. The regulatory impact assessment may also be accessed on the HMSO website www.opsi.gov.uk.

(1)

1994 c. 22; section 22A was inserted by section 33(2) of the Vehicles (Crime) Act 2001 (c. 3).

(2)

S.I. 1988/643, which was made under the Finance (No. 2) Act 1987 (c. 51). The relevant reference in S.I. 1988/643 is Schedule 1, Table VI, item 1A. S.I. 1988/643 was amended by S.I. 2003/1094; there are other amending instruments but none is relevant.

(3)

S.I. 2002/2742, amended by S.I. 2004/2099; there are other amending instruments but none is relevant.