The Motor Vehicles (Off Road Events) (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2013

Welsh Statutory Instruments

2013 No. 2494 (W. 243)

Road Traffic, Wales

The Motor Vehicles (Off Road Events) (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2013

Made

30 September 2013

Laid before the National Assembly for Wales

1 October 2013

Coming into force

25 October 2013

The Welsh Ministers, in exercise of the powers conferred on the Secretary of State for Transport by section 13A of the Road Traffic Act 1988(1), subsequently transferred to the National Assembly for Wales and now vested in them(2)and having consulted such representative organisations as they thought fit in accordance with section 195(2) of that Act, make the following Regulations.

Title, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) The title of these Regulations is the Motor Vehicles (Off Road Events) (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2013 and they come into force on 25 October 2013.

(2) In these Regulations “the 1995 Regulations” (“Rheoliadau 1995”) means the Motor Vehicles (Off Road Events) Regulations 1995(3).

Application

2.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2), these Regulations apply in relation to events taking place wholly or partly in Wales in respect of which an application for authorisation is made under the 1995 Regulations on or after the coming into force of these Regulations.

(2) Where an event takes place partly in Wales and partly elsewhere, these Regulations apply only to the part taking place in Wales.

Amendment of the 1995 Regulations

3.  The 1995 Regulations are amended in accordance with regulations 4 and 5.

Authorising bodies

4.  In regulation 3—

(a) for “Association of Rover Clubs Limited” substitute “Association of Land Rover Clubs Limited”;

(b) for “the Auto-Cycle Union” substitute “Auto-Cycle Union Limited”; and

(c) for “the Royal Automobile Club” substitute “the Royal Automobile Club Motor Sports Association Limited”.

Fees

5.  In regulation 5 after paragraph (2) insert—

“(3) Any fee determined by an authorising body must not exceed a reasonable amount.

(4) An authorising body must publish, in such manner as it considers appropriate for informing persons likely to be affected, the levels of any fees which it has determined in accordance with paragraph (1) as they apply from time to time.

(5) An authorising body may not increase any fee unless details of the increase are published in accordance with paragraph (4) not less than 3 months before the date on which the increase takes effect.”

Edwina Hart

Minister for Economy, Science and Transport, one of the Welsh Ministers

30 September 2013

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Motor Vehicles (Off Road Events) Regulations 1995 (S.I. 1995/1371) (“the 1995 Regulations”). These amendments apply in relation to motoring events taking place wholly or partly in Wales in respect of which an application for authorisation under the 1995 Regulations is made on or after the coming into force of these Regulations. Where an event takes place partly in Wales and partly elsewhere, these Regulations apply only to the part taking place in Wales.

Regulation 4 amends the list of bodies appointed to authorise off-road events in Wales. The changes are:

(a) Association of Land Rover Clubs Limited replaces Association of Rover Clubs Limited;

(b) Auto-Cycle Union Limited replaces the Auto-Cycle Union; and

(c) the Royal Automobile Club Motor Sports Association Limited replaces the Royal Automobile Club.

Regulation 5 makes additional provision in relation to the setting of application fees by the authorising bodies. Any fee determined must not exceed a reasonable amount. Fee levels are required to be published and may not be increased unless details of any increase are published at least 3 months before it takes effect.

A regulatory impact assessment has been prepared in relation to these Regulations. Copies may be obtained from the Welsh Government, Cathays Park, Cardiff CF10 3NQ.

(1)

1988 c.52; section 13A was inserted by section 5 of the Road Traffic Act 1991 (c.40). The functions of the Secretary of State in relation to section 13A of the Road Traffic Act 1988 were transferred to the National Assembly for Wales under the provisions of the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999 No. 672).

(2)

The functions of the National Assembly for Wales were transferred to the Welsh Ministers by virtue of section 162 of, and paragraph 30 of Schedule 11 to, the Government of Wales Act 2006.

(3)

S.I. 1995/1371.