{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-driving-licences-amendment-regulations-1999/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1999/72",
  "legislation_title": "Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Amendment) Regulations 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-driving-licences-amendment-regulations-1999",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations further amend the Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) Regulations 1996 as follows.\n1 Regulation 4 and Schedule 1 amend the fees payable upon an application for a driving licence made on or after 1st April 1999.\nDriving licence fees were last increased on 1st July 1998. Save for the exception mentioned below, the following table shows that where an existing fee is that specified in column 1 the new fee will be that shown in column 2. The percentage increase is shown in column 3:\n1. Existing fee\n2. New fee\n3. Percentage increase\n£6\n£8.50\n41.7%\n£11\n£13.50\n22.7%\n£17\n£24.50\n30.6%\n£21\n£23.50\n11.9%\n£26\n£33.50\n28.8%\nThe exception is the fee payable on the renewal of a Group 2 licence, which is altered from £26 to £28.50, an increase of 9.6%.\n2 Regulation 5 and Schedule 2 amend the fees payable upon an application for a practical driving test where the test is to be conducted on or after 4th May 1999.\nPractical driving test fees were last increased for tests booked on or after 1st April 1998.\nThe following tables show the new fees with the percentage change in brackets:\nORDINARY TESTS\nType of vehicle\nTest commenced during normal hours\nTests commenced during evenings and weekends\nMotor cycles and mopeds\n£45 (15.4%)\n£55 (5.8%)\nMotor cars, tractors and minor categories\n£36.75 (12.2%)\n£46 (7%)\nCars with trailers, goods vehicles and passenger-carrying vehicles\n£73.50 (no change)\n£92 (no change)\nEXTENDED TESTS\nType of vehicle\nTest commenced during normal hours\nTests commenced during evenings and weekends\nMotor cars\n£73.50 (12.2%)\n£92 (7%)\nMotor cycles\n£90 (15.4%)\n£110 (5.8%)\n3 Regulation 3 increases the theory test fee, which has remained unchanged since July 1996, from £15 to £15.50 for tests booked on or after 6th April 1999.\n4 Regulation 6 enables the Secretary of State to serve notice on a person whom he believes to be suffering from specified types of relevant disability (namely certain visual defects and limb disabilities and the impairment of cognitive function) requiring that person to be examined by one of his own officers rather than a registered medical practitioner.",
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  "version": "current",
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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