Statutory Instruments
2008 No. 1473
Public Passenger Transport
The Public Service Vehicles (Operators’ Licences) (Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 2008
Made
5th June 2008
Laid before Parliament
12th June 2008
Coming into force
1st August 2008
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 1981( 1 ) (“the 1981 Act”) and by virtue of the Department of Transport (Fees) Order 1988( 2 ).
Representative organisations have been consulted with in accordance with section 61(2) of the 1981 Act ( 3 ).
Citation and commencement
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Public Service Vehicles (Operators’ Licences) (Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 2008 and shall come into force on 1 st August 2008.
Amendments
2. The Schedule to the Public Service Vehicles (Operators’ Licences) (Fees) Regulations 1995( 4 ) (the “principal Regulations”) is amended by substituting—
(a) in relation to fee number (i), “£224” for “£213”;
(b) in relation to fee number (ii), “£148” for “£141”;
(c) in relation to fee numbers (iii) and (iv), respectively—
(i) in column 3, “£148” for “£141”; and
(ii) in column 5, “£29” for “£28” in each place where it occurs;
(d) in relation to fee number (v), “£113” for “£108”;
(e) in relation to fee numbers (vii) and (viii), respectively “£58” for “£56”.
Transitional provisions
3. Where a decision has been made before the coming into force of these Regulations on an application for the grant of a standard or restricted licence under section 14(1) of the 1981 Act ( 5 ), the fee prescribed in the principal Regulations immediately before the coming into force of these Regulations applies.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State
Jim Fitzpatrick
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State
Department for Transport
5th June 2008
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 1994 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, sections 134(1) and (2) (c).
S.I. 1988/643 , which was made under the Finance (No. 2) Act 1987 (c.51) , section 102. The relevant entry in S.I. 1988/643 is Schedule 1, Table V, item 2.D.
Section 61(2) of the 1981 Act was amended by the 1985 Act, section 139(3) and Schedule 8.
S.I. 1995/2909 , amended by S.I. 2002/2535 and S.I. 2007/689 .
Section 14(1) was amended by the 1985 Act, section 3(5) and Schedule 2, Part II, paragraph 4(1).