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1991 No. 1122
ROAD TRAFFIC
PUBLIC PASSENGER TRANSPORT
The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Large Goods andPassenger-Carrying Vehicles) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1991
Made
1st May 1991
Laid before Parliament
9th May 1991
Coming into force
3rd June 1991
The Secretary of State for Transport, in exercise of the powersconferred by sections 89(3) and (4)(b), 105(1) and (4) and 108(1)(1)of the Road Traffic Act 1988(2), and of all other enabling powers, and afterconsultation with representative organisations in accordance withsection 195(2) of that Act, and with the approval of the Treasury,hereby makes the following Regulations.
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Motor Vehicles (DrivingLicences) (Large Goods and Passenger-Carrying Vehicles) (Amendment) (No.2) Regulations 1991 and shall come into force on 3rd June 1991.
2.-(1) The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Large Goods andPassenger-Carrying Vehicles) Regulations 1990(3)shall be amended in accordance with the followingprovision of this regulation.
(2) In regulation 15 (Applications for tests) for paragraph (2) thereshall be substituted the following paragraph-
"(2) An applicant for such an appointment shall, when making theapplication, specify the category of vehicle in respect of which hedesires to take the test and pay-
(a)£45 if the application for the test is made before 3rd June1991;
(b)£48 if the application is made on or after that date and thetest is to be conducted on a day other than a Saturday;
(c)£75 if the application is made on or after that dateand thetest is to be conducted on a Saturday."
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport
Christopher Chope
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,
Department of Transport
30th April 1991
We approve the making of these Regulations
Thomas Sackville
Irvine Patnick
Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury
1st May 1991
Explanatory Note
(This note is not part of the Regulations
These Regulations amend regulation 15 of the Motor Vehicles(Driving Licences) (Large Goods and Passenger-Carrying Vehicles)Regulations 1990 so as to-
(a)increase the fee payable for a test to drive a large goods orpassenger-carrying vehicle, and
(b)introduce a premium fee for a driving test taken on a Saturday.
The fee for a test to drive an LGV or PCV which is taken on aweek-day is increased from £45 to £48. The fee for the sametest, if taken on a Saturday, is £75.
See the definition of"prescribed"and"regulations".
1988 c. 52; section 89(4)(b) is to be read with theDepartment of Transport (Fees) Order 1988 (S.I. 1988/643), where therelevant entry is in Schedule 1, Table VI, item 1A. Table VI wasinserted by the Department of Transport (Fees) (Amendment) Order 1991(S.I. 1991/811).
S.I. 1990/2612; there are no relevant amendinginstruments.