The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Amendment) Regulations 1994

Made: 8th March 1994

Laid before Parliament: 9th March 1994

Coming into force: 1st April 1994

The Secretary of State for Transport, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 89(3)[^f00001] and (4)(b)[^f00002], 105(1), (3) and (4), 108(1)[^f00003] and 192(1)[^f00004] of the Road Traffic Act 1988[^f00005], after consulting with representative organisations in accordance with section 195(2) of that Act, and with the approval of the Treasury, hereby makes the following Regulations:—

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These Regulations may be cited as the Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Amendment) Regulations 1994 and shall come into force on 1st April 1994.

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The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) Regulations 1987[^f00006] shall be amended in accordance with regulation 3 below.

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• (1) In regulation 19[^f00007] (Fees in respect of tests), for paragraphs (3) and (3A) there shall be substituted—

(3) Subject to paragraph (3B) below, the fee payable in respect of a test to be commenced between the hours of 0830 and 1630 on Monday to Friday (inclusive of both those days) by an examiner appointed under paragraph (1)(a) of regulation 14 is— (a) in the case of a test for the grant of a licence authorising a person to drive a motor vehicle in category A or category P, £35; and (b) in the case of any other test not specified in regulation 15 of the Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Large Goods and Passenger-Carrying Vehicles) Regulations 1990[^f00008], £27.50. (3A) Subject to paragraph (3B) below, the fee payable in respect of a test to be conducted at any other time by an examiner appointed under paragraph (1)(a) of regulation 14 is— (a) in the case of a test for the grant of a licence authorising a person to drive a motor vehicle in category A or category P, £46.50; and (b) in the case of any other test not specified in regulation 15 of the Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Large Goods and Passenger-Carrying Vehicles) Regulations 1990, £37.50. (3B) No fee is payable in respect of a test taken in an invalid carriage.

• (2) In regulation 19(5), for “£26” there shall be substituted “£27.50”.

• (3) In regulation 19A[^f00009] (Fees in respect of extended tests)—

• (a) in paragraph (3)(a), for “£57” there shall be substituted “£70”; and

• (b) in paragraph (3)(b), for “£48.50” there shall be substituted “£55”.

• (4) In regulation 21 (Production of vehicle for test etc), for paragraph (1)(b) there shall be substituted—

(b) sign, on the Driving Test Report Form produced to him by the examiner before the test commences, a declaration that there is in force, in relation to the use of the vehicle provided for the purposes of the test, a policy of insurance which complies with the requirements of Part VI of the Road Traffic Act 1988;

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Paragraphs (1), (2) and (3) of regulation 3 shall not apply in the case of an application for an appointment for a test duly made before 1st April 1994, in respect of which the fees prescribed by virtue of the Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Amendment) Regulations 1993[^f00010] apply.

Signed

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport

Robert Key — Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, — 4th March 1994

We approve the making of these Regulations

Irvine Patnick — Andrew Mackay — Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury — 8th March 1994

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations—

• amend regulations 19 and 19A of the Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) Regulations 1987 so as to increase, for test applications made on or after 1st April 1994, the fees for ordinary driving tests and London taxi drivers' tests and some of the fees for extended driving tests ordered by the court under section 36 of the Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988; and

• amend regulation 21 of those Regulations so as to require a test candidate to make a signed declaration, before taking the test, that the vehicle in which the test is to be taken meets the insurance requirements of part VI of the Road Traffic Act 1988.

The test fees applicable after the coming into force of these Regulations are as follows—

Footnotes

[^f00001]: Section 89(3) was amended by the Road Traffic Act 1991 (c. 40), section 48 and Schedule 4, paragraph 63.

[^f00002]: Section 89(4)(b) is to be read with the Department of Transport (Fees) Order 1988 (S.I. 1988/643), as amended by S.I. 1991/811 and 1993/1601, the relevant entry being in Schedule 1 Table VI, item 1A.

[^f00003]: See the definitions of “prescribed” and “regulations”.

[^f00004]: See the definition of “prescribed”.

[^f00005]: 1988 c. 52.

[^f00006]: S.I. 1987/1378.

[^f00007]: Regulation 19 has been amended by S.I. 1988/965, 1989/762, 1989/1612, 1990/842, 1990/1115, 1991/1121, 1992/1318, 1992/1757 and 1993/1602.

[^f00008]: S.I. 1990/2612. Regulation 15 was amended by S.I. 1991/1122, 1992/1761, 1993/1603 and 1994/639.

[^f00009]: Regulation 19A was inserted by the Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1992 (S.I. 1992/1318) and amended by S.I. 1993/1602.

[^f00010]: S.I. 1993/1602.