The Littering From Vehicles Outside London (Keepers: Civil Penalties) Regulations 2018

PART 1 Introduction

Citation and commencement

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Littering From Vehicles Outside London (Keepers: Civil Penalties) Regulations 2018.

(2) These Regulations come into force on 1st April 2018.

Interpretation

2.  In these Regulations—

“the EPA 1990” means the Environmental Protection Act 1990;

“the RUCS Regulations 2013” means the Road User Charging Schemes (Penalty Charges, Adjudication and Enforcement) (England) Regulations 2013(1);

“adjudicator” means a person who holds office as an adjudicator for the purposes of these Regulations in accordance with regulation 18(1);

“fixed penalty” is to be read in accordance with regulation 6(1) to (3);

“fixed penalty payment period” is to be read in accordance with regulation 6(4) and (5);

“penalty notice” has the meaning given in regulation 4(2).

“Litter authority”

3.  In these Regulations, a “litter authority” means—

(a) a district council in England;

(b) a county council in England for an area for which there is no district council;

(c) the Council of the Isles of Scilly.

(1)

S.I. 2013/1783, to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations.