The Road Vehicles (Registration and Licensing) (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 2003

Statutory Instruments

2003 No. 2981

ROAD TRAFFIC

The Road Vehicles (Registration and Licensing) (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 2003

Made

19th November 2003

Coming into force

30th November 2003

Whereas a draft of these Regulations has been laid before Parliament and approved by each House of Parliament in pursuance of section 7A(5) of the Vehicle Excise and Registration Act 1994(1);

Now, therefore, the Secretary of State for Transport, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 7A and 57(2) of the aforesaid Act of 1994 and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf and with the consent of the Treasury, hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Road Vehicles (Registration and Licensing) (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 2003 and shall come into force on 30th November 2003.

(2) In these Regulations “the principal Regulations” means the Road Vehicles (Registration and Licensing) Regulations 2002(2).

Amendment of the principal Regulations

2.  In the principal Regulations after regulation 9 within Part II there shall be inserted—

“Supplement payable on late renewal of vehicle licence

9A.— (1) Where paragraph (2) applies a supplement of the amount prescribed in paragraph (3) shall be payable.

(2) This paragraph applies where—

(a) a vehicle licence taken out for a vehicle expires,

(b) no vehicle licence was issued for the vehicle before the end of a period of one month beginning with the date of that expiry, and

(c) the registered keeper has failed to comply with requirements contained in Schedule 4.

(3) The supplement shall be £80, except when it is paid to the Secretary of State before the expiry of 28 days beginning with the date on which the registered keeper is notified that a supplement may or has become payable, when it shall be £40.

(4) The supplement shall be payable by the person in whose name the vehicle is registered under the 1994 Act at the date of the expiry of the licence by reason of whose late renewal the supplement becomes payable.”.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State

David Jamieson

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,

Department for Transport

19th November 2003

We consent to the making of these Regulations

Jim Murphy

Nick Ainger

Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury

18th November 2003

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Road Vehicles (Registration and Licensing) Regulations 2002 to provide that a supplement is payable by the registered keeper upon late renewal of a vehicle licence. The supplement is £80, save where payment is within 28 days of the date on which the registered keeper is notified that a supplement may or has become payable, when it shall be £40 regulation 2).

A Regulatory Impact Assessment of these Regulations has been made and copies have been placed in the libraries of both Houses of Parliament. Copies of the Assessment are available from the Licensing, Roadworthiness and Insurance Division, Department for Transport, Great Minster House, 76 Marsham Street, London SW1P 4DR (telephone number: 0207 944 2509; fax: [phone]). The Assessment may also be found by visiting the Department’s website at www.dft.gov.uk.

(1)

1994 c. 22; section 7A was inserted by the Finance Act 2002 (c. 23), section 19 and Schedule 5, paragraph 5.

(2)

S.I. 2002/2742, to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations.