The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Amendment) Regulations 2015

Made: 7th January 2015

Laid before Parliament: 13th January 2015

Coming into force: 4th February 2015

The Secretary of State has consulted representative organisations in accordance with section 195(2) of the 1988 Act.

Citation and commencement

1

These Regulations may be cited as the Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Amendment) Regulations 2015 and come into force on 4th February 2015.

Amendment of Regulations

2

The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) Regulations 1999[^f00003] are amended in accordance with regulation 3.

3

In Schedule 3 (licence fees), in Part 1 (table of fees applying on or after 1st April 2008) after the entry numbered 15 insert—

Signed

Signed by the authority of the Secretary of State for Transport

Claire Perry — Parliametary Under Secretary of State — Department for Transport — 5th January 2015

We approve the making of these Regulations

D Micklethwaite — Gavin Barwell — Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury — 7th January 2015

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

These Regulations amend Part 1 of Schedule 3 (licence fees) to the Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) Regulations 1999 (S.I. 1999/2864) with effect from 4th February 2015.

Regulation 3 introduces a fee of £65 for a licence granted following disqualification by a court in Scotland for soliciting or loitering for the purpose of obtaining the services of a person engaged in prostitution whilst driving or otherwise in charge of a motor vehicle.

A full regulatory impact assessment has not been produced for these Regulations as no impact on the private or voluntary sectors is foreseen.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1988 c.52. Section 97(1)(a) was amended by the Road Traffic (Driver Licensing and Information Systems) Act 1989 (c.22), sections 6, 7 and 16, Schedule 3, paragraph 9 and Schedule 6 and the Immigration Act 2014 (c.22), section 46(1). Section 105(2)(a) was substituted by S.I. 1996/1974, regulation 2 and Schedule 1, paragraph 17(a) and subsequently amended by the Crime (International Co-operation) Act 2003 (c.32), section 91(1), Schedule 5, paragraphs 17 and 23(a)(i). Section 105(4) was amended by S.I. 1998/1420, regulation 10(3). See section 108(1) for the definition of “prescribed” and “regulations”.

[^f00002]: S.I. 2003/2994, amended by S.I. 2008/908. The relevant provisions of S.I. 2003/2994 are articles 2 and 3.

[^f00003]: S.I. 1999/2864; table 1 in Schedule 3 was substituted by S.I. 2008/508 and amended by S.I. 2009/788, 2012/977 and 2014/2580.

[^f00004]: S.I. 2011/2490.