Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Amendment) (No.4) Regulations 2001

Statutory Instruments

2001 No. 2779

ROAD TRAFFIC

Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Amendment) (No.4) Regulations 2001

Made

31st July 2001

Laid before Parliament

2nd August 2001

Coming into force

27th August 2001

The Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 89(3), (4)(b) and (5) and 105(1), (3) and (4) of the Road Traffic Act 1988 (1), after consulting with representative organisations in accordance with section 195(2) of that Act and with the approval of the Treasury (2), hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Amendment) (No.4) Regulations 2001 and shall come into force on 27th August 2001.

Amendment of Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) Regulations 1999

2.  The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) Regulations 1999(3) are amended in accordance with regulation 3 below.

3.  For the table in Schedule 5 (Fees for practical and unitary tests) there shall be substituted the table in the Schedule to these Regulations.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions

David Jamieson

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State

Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions

30th July 2001

We approve the making of these Regulations

Gordon Brown

Graham Stringer

Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury

31st July 2001

Regulation 3

SCHEDULE PROVISIONS INSERTED IN SUBSTITUTION FOR SCHEDULE 5

(1) Category or sub-category of vehicle	(2) Test, other than extended driving test, commencing:		(3) Extended driving test commencing:
	(a) During normal hours	(b) Out of hours	(a) During normal hours	(b) Out of hours
1.  A1, A and P	£46.50	£56.00	£93.00	£112.00
2.  B1, B, F, G, H, and K	£38.00	£47.00	£76.00	£94.00
3.  B + E, C1, C1 + E, D1, D1 + E, C, C + E, D and D + E	£76.00	£94.00	—	—

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations further amend the Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) Regulations 1999 as follows.

Regulation 3 and the Schedule amend the fees payable upon an application for a practical or for a unitary driving test where the test is to be conducted on or after the coming into force of these Regulations.

Practical and unitary driving test fees for car and motor cycle tests were last increased for tests booked on or after 4th May 1999.

Practical and unitary driving test fees for lorry and bus tests were last increased for tests booked on or after 1st April 1998.

The following tables show the new fees with the percentage change in brackets:

ORDINARY TESTS

Type of vehicle	Test commenced during normal hours	Test commenced during evenings and weekends
Motor cycles and mopeds	£46.50 (3.3%)	£56.00 (1.8%)
Motor cars, tractors and minor categories	£38.00 (3.4%)	£47.00 (2.2%)
Cars with trailers, goods vehicles and passenger-carrying vehicles	£76.00 (3.4%)	£94.00 (2.2%)

EXTENDED TESTS

Type of vehicle	Test commenced during normal hours	Test commenced during evenings and weekends
Motor Cycles	£93.00 (3.3%)	£112.00 (1.8%)
Motor Cars	£76.00 (3.4%)	£94.00 (2.2%)

(1)

1988 c. 52. Section 89(3) was amended by the Road Traffic Act 1991 (c. 40); Section 105(4) was amended by the Driving Licences (Community Driving Licence) Regulations 1998 (S.I. 1998/1420); see section 108(1) for the definitions of “prescribed” and “regulations”.

(2)

See section 105(4) of the Road Traffic Act 1988.

(3)

S.I. 1999/2864 to which amendments have been made which are not relevant to these Regulations.