
1 
These Regulations may be cited as the Motor Vehicles (Tests) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1997 and shall come into force on 1st August 1997.
2 
The Motor Vehicles (Tests) Regulations 1981 shall be further amended in accordance with the following provisions of these Regulations.
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(1) Regulation 15 shall be amended as follows.
(2) In paragraph (4)(c), after the words “by that examiner” there shall be inserted the words “or by a person authorised in that behalf by the Secretary of State”.
(3) After paragraph (4), there shall be inserted the following paragraph—“
(5) For the purposes of paragraph (4)(c) only, any test certificate or notice of the refusal of a test certificate which has been issued in accordance with the provisions of this regulation or regulation 16 and which bears a facsimile, by whatever process reproduced, of the signature of the examiner or other authorised person shall be deemed to have been duly signed.”
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(1) Regulation 16 shall be amended as follows.
(2) In paragraph (2), sub-paragraph (b) and the word “and” immediately preceeding it shall be omitted.
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In each provision specified in column (1) of the Table below for the amount specified in relation to that provision in column (2) of that Table there shall be substituted the amount so specified in column (3) of that Table.

(1) (2) (3)
Regulation Existing Amount Substituted Amount
20(1)(a) £11.90 £12.33
20(1)(aa) £20.00 £20.64
20(1)(b) £23.40 £24.12
20(1)(c) £28.66 £29.42
20(1)(d) £35.12 £36.15
20(1)(f) £30.68 £31.60
25(2) £36.00 £49.00
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport
Helene Hayman
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,
Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions
10th July 1997