Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations further amend the Motor Vehicles (Tests) Regulations 1981.

The fees payable for test examinations are increased as follows—

(a)

motor bicycles not having a side car attached, from £10.80 to £11.14;

(b)

motor bicycles with a side car attached, from £18.20 to £18.78;

(c)

vehicles in Class III (“light motor vehicles” other than motor bicycles), from £21.30 to £21,98;

(d)

vehicles in Class IV (“motor cars” and “heavy motor cars” not being vehicles within Classes III, V, VI or VII), from £25.30 to £26.10;

(e)

vehicles in Class V (“large passenger-carrying vehicles”, particular public service vehicles and “play buses”), from £32.00 to £33.04; and

(f)

vehicles in Class VII (goods vehicles with a design gross weight of more than 3,000 kgs but not more than 3,500 kgs), from £27.94 to £28.84.

The fee payable on an appeal, where a notice of the refusal of a test certificate has been issued, is the same amount as the fee payable under regulation 20(1), while the fee for a duplicate test certificate is one half of this amount. These fees will be increased accordingly.