The Motor Vehicles (Tests) (Amendment) (No.2) Regulations 1989

• Citation: S.I. 1989/1694
• Sections: 4

Section 1

These Regulations may be cited as the Motor Vehicles (Tests) (Amendment) (No.2) Regulations 1989 and shall come into force on 31st October 1989.

Section 2

The Motor Vehicles (Tests) Regulations 1981 shall be further amended as follows.

Section 3

(1) The Table preceding regulation 12 shall be omitted.

(2) In regulation 12 –

(a) in paragraph 1(1), for the words “as indicated in the Table on page 12 ”there shall be substituted the words “and, subject to paragraph (1A) below, shall be in writing”; and

(b) after paragraph (1) there shall be inserted the following paragraph –

(1A) An application for a re-examination of a vehicle in Class VI under these Regulations need not be in writing if the application is made before the expiration of 28 days after the last examination.

Section 4

(1) Regulation 20 shall be amended as follows.

(2) For sub-paragraph (a) of paragraph (2) there shall be substituted –

(a) if the application is one to which regulation 12(1) applies (not being an application for an re-examination), at the time the application is made;

(3) In paragraph(2)(b), for the words before sub-paragraph (i) there shall be substituted the words “if the application is one to which Regulation 12(2) applies or, in the case of an application for a re-examination, is one to which Regulation 12(1) and (1A) applies –”.

(4) After paragraph (2) there shall be inserted the following paragraph –

(2A) Where, in the case of a vehicle in Class VI, the date appointed for an examination is, at the request of the applicant, a Saturday, the fee payable for the examination shall be increased by £24.50 in the case of a vehicle which is constructed or adapted to carry more than 12 passengers, and £18.00 in any other case, such additional amount being payable on or before the date of the appointment.

(5) For paragraph (4) there shall be substituted the following paragraph –

(4) Where, on an examination of a vehicle of a description specified in column 1 of the Table, it is found that some or all of the prescribed statutory requirements are not complied with, or when in the circumstances mentioned in Regulation 16, a full examination of the braking system or systems of the vehicle is not carried out, then the fee payable in respect of a further examination shall –

(a) in a case where the date appointed for the further examination is, at the request of the applicant a Saturday, be as shown in column 3 of the Table in relation to a vehicle of that description, and

(b) in any other case, be as shown in column 2 of the Table in relation to a vehicle of that description.

FEES RELATING TO THE RE-EXAMINATION OF VEHICLES IN CLASS VI

(a) £17.75, if the vehicle is sumitted for a further exaination within 14 days of the date of the issue of the notice of refusal of a test certificate, or

(a) £30, in the circumstances described in paragraph (a) of the entry in column 2, or

(b) £36.25, in any other case.

(b) £60.75 in any other case.

(a) £12.50, if the vehicle is submitted for a further examination within 14 days of the date of the issue of the notice of refusal of a test certificate, or

(a) £21.50, in the circustances described in paragraph (a) of the entry in column 2, or,

(b) £25.25, in any other case.

(b) £43.25, in any other case.

(6) In paragraph (5B)(ii), for the words “the said fee” onwards there shall be substituted the words “the fee shall be reduced to £1.50 (the balance of any sum paid in respect of the fee being refundable)”.