{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-type-approval-and-approval-marks-fees-regulations-1989/regulation-10",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-type-approval-and-approval-marks-fees-regulations-1989/regulation-10.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1989/350",
  "legislation_title": "The Motor Vehicles (Type Approval and Approval Marks) (Fees) Regulations 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-type-approval-and-approval-marks-fees-regulations-1989",
  "path": "regulation/10",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": "Fees—visits outside the United Kingdom",
  "text": "(1) Where, in connection with an application for or the performance of the carrying out, or supervision by or on behalf of the Secretary of State, of an examination of a vehicle or vehicle part in relation to the issue of a type approval certificate or authorisation for the purpose of a Community Instrument, or ECE Regulation, or in relation to a type approval certificate or Minister’s approval certificate for the purpose of the national type approval scheme, a visit to a place outside the United Kingdom is made, or is arranged to be made, by one or more persons acting for or on behalf of the Secretary of State, then in addition to the fee or fees prescribed by the regulations above, there shall be paid by the applicant on demand by or on behalf of the Secretary of State a further fee equal to the total of–\n(a) the travelling and subsistence expenses reasonably incurred or expected to be incurred otherwise than on land in the United Kingdom by each person so acting in relation to the application or examination (including expenses outstanding after the cancellation of any travelling or subsistence arrangements which result from the withdrawal of any such application), and\n(b) the whole, or such proportion as the Secretary of State may determine is reasonably attributable to the application or examination, of a sum of £45 for each hour spent or expected to be spent by each person so acting whilst travelling otherwise than on land in the United Kingdom, wholly or partly in relation to the application or examination.\n(2) If payments are made in accordance with paragraph (1) in respect of travelling and subsistence expenses expected to be incurred, or in respect of time expected to be spent in travelling, there shall be refunded to the applicant, in the event of the expectation not being fulfilled, any balance remaining of the payment in respect of the travelling and subsistence expenses which was expected to be incurred and the whole of the payment in respect of time which was expected to be spent in travelling.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/350/regulation/10",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:48:33.970315+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}