The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Amendment) Regulations 1988

Made: 27th May 1988

Laid before Parliament: 6th June 1988

Coming into force: 27th June 1988

The Secretary of State for Transport, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 85(2), 86 and 107 of the Road Traffic Act 1972[^f00001], and now vested in him[^f00002], and all other enabling powers, and after consultation with representative organisations in accordance with section 199(2) of that Act, and, in respect of regulation 4 with the approval of the Treasury, hereby makes the following Regulations:—

1

These Regulations may be cited as the Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Amendment) Regulations 1988 and shall come into force on 27th June 1988.

2

The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) Regulations 1987[^f00003] shall be amended in accordance with the provisions of these Regulations.

3

In paragraph 3 of regulation 18 (Appointments for tests and notice of cancellation thereof), for the word“three” there shall be substituted the word“ten”.

4

In regulation 19 (Fees in respect of tests)—

• (a) in paragraph 3(b) for“£15.00” there shall be substituted“£16.50”,

• (b) in paragraph (5) for“£14.40” there shall be substituted“£16.50”.

5

Regulation 3 of these Regulations shall not apply in respect of the cancellation of an appointment made before 27th June 1988.

Signed

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State

Peter Bottomley — Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, — Department of Transport — 27th May 1988

We approve the making of regulation 4 of these Regulations.

Michael Neubert — Peter Lloyd — Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury — 17th May 1988

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) Regulations 1987 as follows:—

• (a) The period of notice prescribed for the purposes of paragraph (b) of section 86 of the Road Traffic Act 1972 (which section specifies the only circumstances in which a fee paid on application for an appointment for a test may be repaid) is increased from three to ten days. The person for whom an appointment has been made on or after 27th June 1988, must give notice cancelling the appointment not less than ten clear days before the date of the appointment, if the fee is to be repaid. The three day notice period will remain in respect of appointments made before that date.

• (b) Regulation 19(3)(b) of the 1987 Regulations is amended so as to increase the fee payable in respect of a test conducted by an examiner appointed by the licensing authority (other than Part 1 of the motor bicycle test) from £15 to £16.50. There continues to be no fee payable in respect of a test to be taken in an invalid carriage.

• (c) Regulation 19(5) of the 1987 Regulations is amended so as to increase the fee payable to the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, in respect of a test of a person who is the holder of or is an applicant for a licence to drive a motor cab by virtue of the Metropolitan Public Carriage Act 1869 (c. 115), from £14.40 to £16.50.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1972 c. 20; section 85(2) was amended by the Transport Act 1981 (c. 56), section 23, and is to be read with the Department of Transport (Fees) Order 1988 (S.I. 1988/643).

[^f00002]: S.I. 1979/571 and 1981/238.

[^f00003]: S.I. 1987/1378.