The Motor Vehicles (Tests) (Amendment) Regulations 2002

• Citation: S.I. 2002/488
• Sections: 4

Section 1 Citation and commencement

These Regulations may be cited as the Motor Vehicles (Tests) (Amendment) Regulations 2002 and shall come into force on 1st April 2002.

Section 2 Preliminary

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

Section 3 Amendments to regulation 20 (fees for examinations)

(1) Regulation 20 shall be amended as follows.

(2) In paragraphs (1)(d)(i), (da)(i), (e)(i) and (ea)(i), for “16” there shall be substituted “22”.

(3) In the provisions specified in column (1) of the following Table for the amounts specified in column (2) there shall be substituted the amounts specified in column (3).

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(4) In paragraph (4), for the words “some or all” there shall be substituted the words “one or more”.

(5) In paragraph (4), for the words prior to sub-paragraph (a) there shall be substituted the words—

Where either—

on an examination of a vehicle in Class VI constructed or adapted to carry more than 22 passengers, it is found that one or more 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; or

on an examination of a vehicle in Class VIA constructed or adapted to carry more than 22 passengers, it is found that one or more of the prescribed statutory requirements, including those referred to in item 28A in paragraph 3A of Schedule 2, are not complied with,

then the fee payable in respect of a further examination—

(6) In the heading above the Table in paragraph (4), for “CLASS VI” there shall be substituted “CLASS VI OR VIA”.

(7) In column 1 of the Table in paragraph (4), for “Class VI” in both places where those words occur there shall be substituted “Class VI or VIA” and for “16” there shall be substituted “22”.

(8) In the Table in paragraph (4), for the amounts specified in column (1) of the Table below there shall be substituted the amounts specified in column (2).

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(9) Paragraphs (4A) and (4B) shall be deleted.

(10) In paragraph (5), for “(1), (4), (4A) and (4B)” there shall be substituted “(1) and (4)”.

(11) In paragraph (7), for “paragraphs (4) and (4B)” there shall be substituted “paragraph (4)”.

(12) In paragraph (7)(c)(xvi), “and” shall be deleted.

Section 4 Amendments to paragraph 5 of Schedule 2 (the prescribed statutory requirements for vehicles in Class VI)

In the Table in paragraph 5(b) of Schedule 2, after item 37, there shall be inserted the following items—