Statutory Instruments
2020 No. 790
Road Traffic
The Motor Vehicles (Tests) (Amendment) (Coronavirus) (No. 2) Regulations 2020
Made
21st July 2020
Laid before Parliament
23rd July 2020
Coming into force
31st July 2020
The Secretary of State makes the following Regulations in exercise of the power conferred by section 47(5) of the Road Traffic Act 1988( 1 ).
The Secretary of State, in accordance with section 195(2) of that Act, has consulted such representative organisations as the Secretary of State thinks fit.
Citation and commencement
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Motor Vehicles (Tests) (Amendment) (Coronavirus) (No. 2) Regulations 2020 and come into force on 31st July 2020.
Amendment to the Motor Vehicles (Tests) Regulations 1981
2. In regulation 6(1B)(a) of the Motor Vehicles (Tests) Regulations 1981( 2 ) for “before 31st March 2021” substitute “before 2nd August 2020”.
Amendment to the Motor Vehicles (Tests) (Amendment) (Coronavirus) Regulations 2020
3. In regulation 1(3) of the Motor Vehicles (Tests) (Amendment) (Coronavirus) Regulations 2020( 3 ) for “30th September 2021” substitute “1st February 2021”.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport
Vere of Norbiton
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State
Department of Transport
21st July 2020
1988 c. 52 ; section 47 was amended by the Vehicle Excise and Registration Act 1994 (c. 22) , section 63 and Schedule 3, paragraph 24(2), and the Finance Act 1994 (c. 9) , section 5 and Schedule 2, paragraph 25.
S.I. 1981/1694 , amended by S.I. 2020/382 ; there are other amending instruments but none is relevant.