The Local Authorities (Transport Charges) Regulations 1998

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations authorise local authorities to impose charges on specified persons for dealing with certain matters in pursuance of various statutory functions relating to highways, road traffic regulation and travel concessions (see regulation 3 and the Schedule). Regulation 4 leaves the amount of any charge to the discretion of the local authority imposing it, but requires them to have regard to the cost of dealing with matters of the description in question. Regulation 5 provides that a charge for the issue of a travel concession permit or a replacement permit is only to be imposed by a London borough council or the Common Council of the City of London if all the borough councils and the Common Council have agreed to the imposition of the charge and its amount.