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The Public Service Vehicles (Registration of Local Services) (Amendment) (England and Wales) Regulations 2009

S.I. 2009/878 · Made 2 April 2009

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Public Passenger Transport, England And Wales

Made 2nd April 2009

Laid before Parliament 8th April 2009

Coming into force 3rd May 2009

The Secretary of State for Transport makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 52(1)(a) and 60(1)(e) and (1A) of the Public Passenger Vehicles Act 1981f1 and by sections 126(1) and 134 of the Transport Act 1985f2; and by virtue of The Department for Transport (Fees) Order 2009f3.

Representative organisations have been consulted in accordance with section 61(2) of the Public Passenger Vehicles Act 1981f4.

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

1981 c.14 (in these footnotes called “the 1981 Act”). Relevant amendments to sections 52(1)(a) and 60(1) of the 1981 Act were made by the Transport Act 1985 (c.67) (in these footnotes called “the 1985 Act”) and by the Deregulation and Contracting Out Act 1994 (c.40) (in these footnotes called “the 1994 Act”), as follows. Section 52(1)(a) of the 1981 Act was amended by paragraphs 4(1) and 4(14) of Part II of Schedule 2 of the 1985 Act; section 60(1) of the 1981 Act was amended by paragraphs 4(1) and 4(18) of Part II of Schedule 2 of the 1985 Act and words were omitted from section 60(1) of the 1981 Act by Schedule 8 of the 1985 Act. Section 52(1)(a) of the 1981 Act was further amended by section 66(2) of the 1994 Act and section 60(1) (e) of the 1981 Act was substituted by section 66(5) of the Act. Section 60(1A) of the 1981 Act was inserted by section 134(2) (b) of the 1985 Act. For the definition of “prescribed” and “regulations”, see section 60(2) of the 1981 Act, as amended by the 1985 Act, section 134(1) and (2)(c).

f2

1985 c.67. Section 126(1) was amended by section 52(1) of the Local Transport Act 2008 (c.26)

f3

S.I. 2009/711, which was made under the Finance (No. 2) Act 1987 (c.51), section 102. The relevant provisions in S.I. 2009/711 are regulation 4(4) and paragraphs 14 to 17 of Schedule 1, together with regulation 9 and Schedule 2.

f4

By virtue of section 135 of the 1985 Act, section 61 of the 1981 Act has effect as if Part I of the 1985 Act were contained in the 1981 Act. Section 61(2) of the 1981 Act was amended by the 1985 Act, section 139(3) and Schedule 8.

Contents

  1. 1Citation, commencement and extent
  2. 2Amendment of the principal Regulations
  3. Signature
  4. Explanatory note

1Citation, commencement and extent

(1)

These Regulations may be cited as the Public Service Vehicles (Registration of Local Services) (Amendment) (England and Wales) Regulations 2009 and shall come into force on 3rd May 2009.

(2)

These Regulations extend to England and Walesf1.

2Amendment of the principal Regulations

The Public Service Vehicles (Registration of Local Services) Regulations 1986f1 are amended as follows—

(a)

in regulations 12(1)(a) and 12(2)(a), for “£12” substitute “£13”; and

(b)

in regulations 12(1)(b) and 12(2)(b), for “£57” substitute “£60”.

Signature

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport

Jim Fitzpatrick

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State

Department for Transport

2nd April 2009

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations increase the fees for the registration of, or the variation of the registration of, a local bus service.

The fees for a community bus service are increased from £12 to £13. This represents an increase of 8.3%. The fees for community bus services were last increased on 1st April 2007.

The fees for a local bus service other than a community bus service are increased from £57 to £60. This represents an increase of 5.3%. These fees were last increased on 1st August 2008.

A full Impact Assessment of the effect that this instrument will have on the costs of business and the voluntary sector is available from: VOSA Corporate Office, Berkeley House, Croydon Street, Bristol, BS5 0DA. The Impact Assessment is also annexed to the Explanatory Memorandum which is available alongside the instrument on the OPSI website at www.opsi.gov.uk.