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2014 No. 81
The Road User Charging Schemes (Penalty Charges, Adjudication and Enforcement) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2014
Made
Laid before Parliament
Coming into force
The Secretary of State for Transport, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 163(2), 173(1) to (3) and 197(1) of the Transport Act 20001 makes the following Regulations.
Citation, commencement and application1
These Regulations may be cited as the Road User Charging Schemes (Penalty Charges, Adjudication and Enforcement) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2014 and come into force on 14th February 2014.
Amendment of the Road User Charging Schemes (Penalty Charges, Adjudication and Enforcement) (England) Regulations 20132
The Road User Charging Schemes (Penalty Charges, Adjudication and Enforcement) (England) Regulations 20132 are amended in accordance with regulations 3 and 4.
Amendment of regulation 63
1
In regulation 6 (person by whom penalty charge is to be paid)—
a
for paragraph (5) substitute—
5
Where—
a
at the relevant time—
i
the registered keeper of the relevant vehicle was a vehicle-hire firm; and
ii
the relevant vehicle was hired to any person under a hire agreement with the vehicle-hire firm; and
b
the charging authority has been given a copy of—
i
a statement signed by or on behalf of the vehicle-hire firm to the effect that at the relevant time the vehicle was hired to a named person under a hire agreement;
ii
a copy of the hire agreement (or, at the discretion of the charging authority, a copy of relevant extracts from the hire agreement); and
iii
a copy of a statement of liability signed by the hirer under the hire agreement—
aa
containing a statement by the hirer to the effect that the hirer acknowledges responsibility for any road user charges or penalty charges that may be incurred with respect to the vehicle while it is hired to the hirer; and
bb
including an address given by the hirer (whether a residential, business or other address) as one at which documents may be given to the hirer,
road user charges and penalty charges are to be paid by the person who hired the vehicle under the hire agreement.
b
for sub-paragraph (7)(c) substitute—
c
“hire agreement” and “vehicle-hire firm” have the same meanings as in sub-paragraph 13(6) of Schedule 4 to the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012.3
Amendment of regulation 94
In regulation 9 (cancellation of penalty charge notice), for sub-paragraph (1)(c) substitute—
c
as soon as reasonably practicable refund any sum paid in respect of the penalty charge notice and (if applicable) the road user charge.
Signed on behalf of the Secretary of State for Transport
(This note is not part of these Regulations)