274.Subsection (1) amends section 172 of the TA 2000. It allows the appropriate national authority by means of regulations to require schemes to provide that road users may choose to pay charges in a specific manner, and (where the road user so chooses) to require the charging authority to collect charges in a specified manner. It also enables the appropriate national authority to regulate any arrangements made by the charging authority with other schemes or with other third parties for charges to be paid and collected. Regulations made under section 172 (as amended) could, for example, make provisions so that a road user could register with one charging scheme, install any appropriate equipment and make arrangements for payment in a particular way. The road user could then choose for these arrangements also to apply to one or more additional charging schemes, so that all his payments were processed in that fashion.
275.Subsection (7) makes equivalent provision in Schedule 23 to the GLA Act 1999, in relation to London.
276.Subsections (3), (5) and (6) amend section 172 of the TA 2000 and Schedule 23 to the GLA Act 1999 so as to provide that a road in London may be made subject to charges by more than one charging authority at a time, provided the Greater London Authority has given its consent.