The Motor Vehicles (Taxi Drivers’ Licences) (Fees) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008

Made: 18th September 2008

Coming into operation: 31st October 2008

The Department of the Environment makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by Articles 79A(2) and 218(1) of the Road Traffic (Northern Ireland) Order 1981[^f00001].

Citation and commencement

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These Regulations may be cited as the Motor Vehicles (Taxi Drivers’ Licences) (Fees) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008 and shall come into operation on 31st October 2008.

Amendment of the Motor Vehicles (Taxi Drivers’ Licences) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1991

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In regulation 4 of the Motor Vehicles (Taxi Drivers’ Licences) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1991[^f00002] (fee for a licence), for paragraph (1) substitute—

(1) The fee for a first licence shall be £140.00 and for renewal of a licence shall be £105.00.

Signed

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of the Environment on 18th September 2008.

Stanley Duncan — A senior officer of the — Department of the Environment

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

These Regulations amend regulation 4(1) of the Motor Vehicles (Taxi Drivers’ Licences) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1991 by increasing the fee for a first licence from £110.00 to £140.00 and the fee for the renewal of a licence from £75.00 to £105.00.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: S.I. 1981/154 (N.I. 1); see Article 2(2) for the definition of “Department” and “prescribed”; Article 79A was inserted by Part II of Sch. 3 to S.I. 1991/197 (N.I. 3) and paragraph (2) was amended by Article 79(1) and (3)(c) of S.I. 2007/916 (N.I. 10)

[^f00002]: S.R. 1991 No. 454; relevant amending Regulations are S.R. 1994 No. 412 and S.R. 2006 No. 408