LegalizeThe Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 1998
Made: 14th May 1998
Laid before Parliament: 27th May 1998
Coming into force: 1st July 1998
The Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 97(1), 105 and 108(1) of the Road Traffic Act 19881, after consulting with representative organisations in accordance with section 195(2) of that Act and with the approval of the Treasury2, hereby makes the following Regulations:—
1
These Regulations may be cited as the Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 1998 and shall come into force on 1st July 1998.
2
- (1) The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) Regulations 19963 shall be amended as provided in paragraphs (2) and (3) below.
- (2) For regulation 18 there shall be substituted—
(18) In order that a licence may show the usual form of signature of its holder— (a) where the licensing authority so requires, a person applying for a licence shall provide the licensing authority with a specimen of his signature which can be electronically recorded and reproduced on the licence; (b) where no such requirement is made, a person to whom a licence is granted shall forthwith sign it in ink in the space provided.
- (3) For Schedule 3 (licence fees) there shall be substituted the provisions set out in the Schedule hereto.
SCHEDULE — PROVISIONS SUBSTITUTED FOR SCHEDULE 3
Signed
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions
Helene Hayman — Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, — Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions We approve the making of these Regulations — 11th May 1998
Graham Allen — Jim Dowd — Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury — 14th May 1998
Explanatory note
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations further amend the Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/2824) by—
- (a) imposing new fees of—
- (i) £6 for the grant of a person’s first full licence and for the grant of a first full licence in category C or D, and
- (ii) £21 for a provisional licence granted following the revocation of licence under the Road Traffic (New Drivers) Act 1995;
- (b) increasing some of the other fees payable by applicants for licences;
- (c) providing for specimen signatures to be supplied by applicants for licences in order that facsimiles may be inserted in photocard licences.
The new and revised fees apply to applications for licences to come into force on and after 1st July 1998. The fees other than the new fees mentioned above were last revised in February 1992. They are (with the percentage increase since the last revision shown in brackets):—
| a First licence (except when granted in exchange for Northern Ireland licence or for a Community licence if on medical grounds). | £21 (no change) |
|---|---|
| b First licence granted in exchange for Northern Ireland licence. | £11 (83.3%) |
| c Licence granted in exchange for subsisting licence (unless special rate or statutory exemption applies). | £11 (83.3%) |
| d Group 1 licence granted on expiry of previous licence (except licence with limited period of validity on medical grounds). | £6 (no change) |
| e Licence replacing lost or defaced licence. | £11 (83.3%) |
| f Provisional licence to drive vehicles in category C or D. | £21 (no change) |
| g Licence granted to high risk offender following disqualification (including provisional licence granted in case of disqualification until test passed). | £26 (30%) |
| h Licence granted to any other person following disqualification (including provisional licence granted in case of disqualification until test passed). | £17 (41.6%) |
| i Provisional licence to drive large goods or passenger-carrying vehicles granted to person disqualified until test passed under section 117 or 117A of the Road Traffic Act 1988. | £17 (41.6%) |
Footnotes
1988 c. 52. Section 97(1) was amended by the Driver Licensing and Information Systems Act 1989 (c. 22) (“the 1989 Act”), section 6(2) and Schedule 3, paragraph 9. Section 105(2) was amended by the 1989 Act, Schedule 3, paragraph 14, by the Driving Licences (Community Driving Licence) Regulations 1990 (S.I. 1990/144), and by the Driving Licences (Community Driving Licence) Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/1974). In section 108(1), see the definitions of “prescribed” and “regulations”.
See section 105(4) of the Road Traffic Act 1988.
1996/2824, to which there have been no amendments relevant hereto.
I.e. the Road Traffic Act 1988.
I.e. the Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988.
Reading this document does not replace reading the official text published on legislation.gov.uk. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. We assume no responsibility for any inaccuracies arising from the conversion of the original CLML XML to this format.
This text is published under legislation.gov.uk's own terms of reuse, not a Legalize or public-domain licence.
legislation.gov.uk
Open Government Licence v3.0 (attribution required)
© Crown and database right. Derived from content available under the Open Government Licence v3.0 from legislation.gov.uk.