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Public Service Vehicles (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998

S.R. 1998/76 · Made 6 March 1998

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ROAD TRAFFIC AND VEHICLES

Made 6th March 1998

Coming into operation 20th April 1998

The Department of the Environment, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by Articles 61(1), 66(1), 80 and 218(1) of the Road Traffic (Northern Ireland) Order 1981f1 and of every other power enabling it in that behalf, and with the approval of the Department of Finance and Personnelf2 in relation to regulation 2, hereby makes the following Regulations:

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

S.I. 1981/154 (N.I. 1); see Article 2(2) for the definition of “Department” and “prescribed”

f2

Formerly the Department of Finance. See S.I. 1982/338 (N.I. 6), Article 3

Contents

  1. 1Citation and commencement
  2. 2Amendment of the Public Service Vehicles Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1985
  3. 3Revocation
  4. Signature
  5. Explanatory note

1Citation and commencement

These Regulations may be cited as the Public Service Vehicles (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998 and shall come into operation on 20th April 1998.

2Amendment of the Public Service Vehicles Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1985

(1)

The Public Service Vehicles Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1985f1 shall be amended as provided in paragraphs (2) and (3).

(2)

In regulation 10 (refund of fees), in paragraph (2), in the definition of “exceptional circumstances”, the words “an epidemic, severe weather,” shall be omitted.

(3)

In Schedule 7 (fees for vehicle licences)f2, in paragraphs 1(b) and 2(b), for “£35·00”, in each place where that figure occurs, there shall be substituted “£45·00”.

3Revocation

Regulation 2(4) of the Public Service Vehicles (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1995f1 is hereby revoked.

Signature

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of the Environment on

L.S.

J. Ritchie

Assistant Secretary

4th March 1998.

The Department of Finance and Personnel hereby approves regulation 2.

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Finance and Personnel on

L.S.

D. Thomson

Assistant Secretary

6th March 1998.

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations.)

These Regulations further amend Schedule 7 to the Public Service Vehicles Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1985 by increasing the fee to be accompanied with an application or re-application (following a refusal) for a vehicle licence for a bus from £35 to £45.