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This Order may be cited as the Vehicle Licences (Duration of First Licences and Rate of Duty) (Amendment) Order 1994 and shall come into force on 1st January 1995.
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The Vehicle Licences (Duration of First Licences and Rate of Duty) (Northern Ireland) Order 1986 is hereby revoked.
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(1) The Vehicle Licences (Duration of First Licences and Rate of Duty) Order 1986 shall be amended as follows.
(2) The following article shall be inserted after article 1—“
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This Order shall extend to England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.”
(3) In article 2—
(a) for the words “the Vehicles (Excise) Act 1971” in paragraph (1) there shall “the Vehicle Excise and Registration Act 1994 (“the 1994”)”;
(b) for the words “section 13 of the Act of 1971” in paragraph (2)(a) there shall be substituted “section 9 of the 1994 Act”;
(c) the word “or” immediately following paragraph (2)(a) shall be omitted; and
(d) paragraph (2)(b) shall be omitted.
(4) In article 3(1)(b) for “£35” there shall be substituted “£50”.
(5) The following paragraph shall be substituted for paragraph (a) of article 4—“
(a) an amount ascertained in accordance with section 4 of the 1994 Act;”.
(6) The first two lines of numbers given in the table in the Schedule shall be revised as follows—
0 150 8.50 6.00 3.50
151 300 16.00 11.00 6.00
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport
Steven Norris
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,
Department of Transport
5th December 1994