The Motor Vehicles (Tests) (Amendment) (No.2) Regulations 1997

• Citation: S.I. 1997/1679
• Sections: 5

Section 1 Citation and commencement

These Regulations may be cited as the Motor Vehicles (Tests) (Amendment) ( No. 2) Regulations 1997 and shall come into force on 1st August 1997.

Section 2 Preliminary

The Motor Vehicles (Tests) Regulations 1981 shall be further amended in accordance with the following provisions of these Regulations.

Section 3 Amendments to regulation 15 (results of examinations)

(1) Regulation 15 shall be amended as follows.

(2) In paragraph (4)(c), after the words “by that examiner” there shall be inserted the words “or by a person authorised in that behalf by the Secretary of State”.

(3) After paragraph (4), there shall be inserted the following paragraph—

(5) For the purposes of paragraph (4)(c) only, any test certificate or notice of the refusal of a test certificate which has been issued in accordance with the provisions of this regulation or regulation 16 and which bears a facsimile, by whatever process reproduced, of the signature of the examiner or other authorised person shall be deemed to have been duly signed.

Section 4 Amendments to regulation 16 (refusal of a test certificate where braking test cannot be carried out)

(1) Regulation 16 shall be amended as follows.

(2) In paragraph (2), sub-paragraph (b) and the word “and” immediately preceeding it shall be omitted.

Section 5 Amendments relating to fees

In each provision specified in column (1) of the Table below for the amount specified in relation to that provision in column (2) of that Table there shall be substituted the amount so specified in column (3) of that Table.

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