The River Mersey (Mersey Gateway Bridge) Order 2011

PART 2

2.  Vehicles falling within the following descriptions of motor vehicles shall be eligible to be entered upon the exemptions register—

(a) a police vehicle, identifiable as such by writing or markings on it or otherwise by its appearance, or being the property of the Service Authority for the National Criminal Intelligence Service or the Service Authority for the National Crime Squad;

(b) a fire engine as defined by paragraph 4(2) of Schedule 2 to the Vehicle Excise and Registration Act 1994(1);

(c) a vehicle which is kept by a fire authority as defined by paragraph 5 of that Schedule;

(d) an ambulance as defined by paragraph 6(2) of that Schedule; or

(e) a vehicle owned by or being used for the transport of a person who has a disabled person’s badge and which displays a current disabled person’s badge issued under—

(i) section 21 of the Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act 1970(2), or

(ii) section 14 of the Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons (Northern Ireland) Act 1978(3).

3.  The undertaker may require that an application to enter particulars of a vehicle on the exemptions register or to renew the registration of a vehicle—

(a) shall include all such information as the undertaker may reasonably require; and

(b) shall be made by such means as the undertaker may accept.

4.  Registration of a vehicle upon the exemptions register, and the use to which that vehicle must be put to qualify as exempt from tolls, shall be subject to the imposition of such further conditions as the undertaker may reasonably impose.

5.  Where the undertaker receives an application that complies with paragraph 3 to enter particulars of a vehicle on the exemptions register, or to renew the registration of a vehicle, and the vehicle falls within the descriptions set out in paragraph 2 it shall enter the particulars of that vehicle on the exemptions register within 20 working days of receiving such an application.

6.  The undertaker shall remove particulars of a vehicle from the exemptions register—

(a) in the case of a vehicle registered in relation to the holder of a disabled person’s badge, when that person ceases to be an eligible person for a disabled person’s badge as set out in paragraph 2(e);

(b) in the case of any vehicle at the end of the period of 7 consecutive days beginning with the day on which a change in the keeper of the vehicle occurred, unless the undertaker renews the registration for a further period on application to it by or on behalf of the new keeper.

7.  Where the registered keeper of a vehicle is aware that the vehicle has ceased or will cease to be a vehicle eligible to be entered on the exemptions register, the keeper shall notify the undertaker of the fact and the undertaker shall remove the particulars of the vehicle from the exemptions register as soon as reasonably practicable or from the date notified to the undertaker as the date on which it will cease to be a vehicle eligible to be recorded on the exemptions register.

8.  If the undertaker is no longer satisfied that a vehicle is an exempt vehicle it shall—

(a) remove the particulars of a vehicle from the exemptions register; and

(b) notify the registered keeper.

9.  Nothing in this Schedule shall prevent the making of a fresh application for particulars of a vehicle to be entered in the exemptions register after they have been removed from it in accordance with any provision of this Part of this Schedule.

(1)

1994 c. 22.

(2)

1970 c. 44.

(3)

1978 c. 53.