Road Traffic (Motor Vehicles, Registration and Licensing) (Amendment No. 3) Rules 1998

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Published in Subsidiary Legislation Supplement
on 17 Jul 1998

No. S 388

Road Traffic Act

(Chapter 276)

Road Traffic (Motor Vehicles, Registration and Licensing) (Amendment No. 3) Rules 1998

In exercise of the powers conferred by sections 34 and 140 of the Road Traffic Act, the Minister for Communications hereby makes the following Rules:

Citation and commencement

1. These Rules may be cited as the Road Traffic (Motor Vehicles, Registration and Licensing) (Amendment No. 3) Rules 1998 and shall come into operation on 17th July 1998.

Amendment of rule 36

2. Rule 36 of the Road Traffic (Motor Vehicles, Registration and Licensing) Rules (R 5) (referred to in these Rules as the principal Rules) is amended by deleting paragraphs (4) and (5) and substituting the following paragraphs:

“(4) Subject to paragraphs (4A), (4B), (4C) and rule 38, the fee payable for a licence under this rule shall be the appropriate fee set out in —

(a)	the Second Schedule, if the licence commences before 1st September 1998; and
(b)	the Sixth Schedule, if the licence commences on or after 1st September 1998.

(4A) Where the amount of the fee payable under paragraph (4)(b) for a licence for a motor vehicle exceeds the amount of the fee which would have been payable under paragraph (4)(a) for a licence for that same vehicle, then, subject to paragraph (4C) and rule 38 —

(a)

the fee payable for a licence for such motor vehicle, which commences on any date from 1st September 1998 to 31st August 1999, shall be computed in accordance with the formula —

(b)

the fee payable for a licence for such motor vehicle, which commences on any date from 1st September 1999 to 31st August 2000, shall be computed in accordance with the formula —

where, for the purposes of sub-paragraphs (a) and (b) —

X is the fee which would have been payable under paragraph (4)(a) for the licence had such licence commenced before 1st September 1998; and

Y is the fee payable under paragraph (4)(b) for the licence if such licence commences on or after 1st September 1998; and

(c)

the fee payable for a licence for such motor vehicle, which commences on or after 1st September 2000, shall be the appropriate fee payable under paragraph (4)(b).

(4B) Where the period for which a licence is taken out falls within more than one of the periods referred to in paragraph (4A)(a), (b) or (c), the fee payable for the licence under this rule shall be computed on a pro-rata basis.

(4C) Where the Registrar has granted permission under the Road Traffic (Public Service Vehicles) Rules (R 14) for any bus (other than an omnibus or a school bus) to convey school children for any period, the Registrar may, subject to such conditions as he thinks fit to impose, allow a rebate of 50% of the fee which has been paid under this rule for the licence for the bus during the period for which the bus was used to convey school children.

(5) The fee payable in respect of a licence for a special motor vehicle or special type of motor vehicle under paragraph (3) shall be of the following amount for every day on which such licence is used:

(a)	one-thirtieth of the appropriate fee in the Second Schedule, if the licence commences before 1st September 1998; or
(b)	one-thirtieth of the appropriate fee in the Sixth Schedule, if the licence commences on or after 1st September 1998.”.

Amendment of rule 37

3. Rule 37(1) of the principal Rules is amended by inserting, immediately after the words “rule 36(4),” in the second line, the words “(4A), (4B), (4C) or”.

New Sixth Schedule

4. The principal Rules are amended by inserting, immediately after the Fifth Schedule, the following Schedule:

“SIXTH SCHEDULE

Rules 36 and 57

Fees Payable for Motor Vehicles With Vehicle Licence Commencing on or After 1ST September 1998