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STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS
2001 No. 1649
PUBLIC PASSENGER TRANSPORT
The Public Service Vehicles (Conditions of Fitness, Equipment, Use and Certification) (Amendment) Regulations 2001
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Made |
2nd May 2001 | |
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Laid before Parliament |
3rd May 2001 | |
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Coming into force |
28th May 2001 | |
The Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 10(1), 52(1)(a) and 60 of the Public Passenger Vehicles Act 1981[1] by virtue of the Department of Transport (Fees) Order 1988[2], and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, and after consultation with representative organisations in accordance with section 61(2) of that Act, hereby makes the following Regulations: -
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These Regulations may be cited as the Public Service Vehicles (Conditions of Fitness, Equipment, Use and Certification) (Amendment) Regulations 2001 and shall come into force on 28th May 2001.
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- (1) The Public Service Vehicles (Conditions of Fitness, Equipment, Use and Certification) Regulations 1981[3] shall be amended as follows.
(2) In the regulations specified in column (1) of the Table for the amounts specified in column (2) there shall be substituted the amounts specified in column (3).
TABLE
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(1)
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(2)
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(3)
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Regulation
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Existing Amount (£)
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Substituted Amount (£)
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46(2)(a)(i) |
164 |
169 |
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46(2)(a)(ii) |
131 |
135 |
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46(2)(b)(i) |
131 |
135 |
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50(a) |
760 |
783 |
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71 |
73 |
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50(b) |
375 |
386 |
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50(c) |
1625 |
1674 |
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57(5) |
10 |
10.50 |
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State
Larry Whitty
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions
2nd May 2001
EXPLANATORY NOTE
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations amend the Public Service Vehicles (Conditions of Fitness, Equipment, Use and Certification) Regulations 1981 as follows.
The fee payable for a certificate of initial fitness is increased by 3% from £164 to £169 on the first application in respect of a public service vehicle which, when equipped with seat belts otherwise than as required by regulation 47 of the Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986, is not of a type of vehicle in respect of which the Secretary of State is satisfied that the vehicle manufacturer holds certain approvals relating to seat belt anchorage points.
The fee payable for a certificate of initial fitness is increased by 3.1% from £131 to £135 on the first application in any other case.
The fee payable for a certificate of initial fitness is increased by 3.1% from £131 to £135 on any subsequent application when the test which that application will require includes a test of stability under regulation 6.
The fees payable for type approvals are increased from £760, £71, £375 and £1625 to respectively £783, £73, £386 and £1674 (increases of 3%, 2.8%, 2.9% and 3% respectively).
The fee payable for a duplicate certificate is increased by 5% from £10 to £10.50.
Copies of the statutory instruments referred to in these Regulations can be obtained from the Stationery Office.
Notes:
[1]
1981 c.14. Section 52(1) was amended by the Transport Act 1985 (c.67) ("the 1985 Act"), Schedule 1, paragraph 7, Schedule 2, Part II, paragraph 4(14) and Schedule 8: and by the Deregulation and Contracting Out Act 1994 (c.40), section 66(2). Section 60(1) was amended by the 1985 Act, section 134(2), Schedule 2, Part II, paragraph 4(18) and Schedule 8; section 60(1A) was inserted by the 1985 Act, section 134(2), and section 61(2) was amended by the 1985 Act, section 135(1) and Schedule 8.back
[2]
S.I. 1988/643, which was made under section 102 of the Finance (No. 2) Act 1987 (c.51). The relevant references in S.I. 1988/643 are items 1 and 2A of Table V of Schedule 1.back
[3]
S.I. 1981/257; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1986/370, 1988/340, 1997/84, 1998/1670 and 2000/1431.back
ISBN
0 11 029429 7
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Prepared
11 May 2001
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