The Motor Cars (Driving Instruction) (Amendment) Regulations 2004

Statutory Instruments

2004 No. 2871

ROAD TRAFFIC

The Motor Cars (Driving Instruction) (Amendment) Regulations 2004

Made

1st November 2004

Laid before Parliament

9th November 2004

Coming into force

8th December 2004

The Secretary of State for Transport, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by sections 132(2)(b) and 141 of the Road Traffic Act 1988(1), and after consulting with representative organisations in accordance with section 195(2) of that Act, hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Motor Cars (Driving Instruction) (Amendment) Regulations 2004 and shall come into force on 8th December 2004.

Amendment of the Motor Cars (Driving Instruction) Regulations 1989

2.—(1) The Motor Cars (Driving Instruction) Regulations 1989(2) (“principal Regulations”) are amended as follows.

(2) In the Table in regulation 13, in column (3), for “£62”, in each place where it occurs, substitute “£70”.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State

David Jamieson

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,

Department for Transport

1st November 2004

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Motor Cars (Driving Instruction) Regulations 1989 by increasing some of the fees payable under those Regulations.

The fees payable in respect of the driving ability and fitness test and the instructional ability and fitness test are increased to £70, an increase of 12.9%. This is the first increase in these fees since 1st April 1997.

These Regulations are made in conjunction with the Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Amendment) (No.3) Regulations 2004. A combined full regulatory impact assessment of the effect that these amendments will have on the costs of business is available from the Driving Standards Agency, Stanley House, Talbot Street, Nottingham NG1 5GU.

(1)

1988 c. 52. Section 132 was amended by the Transport Act 2000, section 260 and Schedule 29.

(2)

S.I. 1989/2057, the relevant amending instrument is S.I. 1997/650.