The Dartmouth-Kingswear Floating Bridge (Revision of Charges etc.) Order 2023

1.  This Order may be cited as the Dartmouth-Kingswear Floating Bridge (Revision of Charges etc.) Order 2023 and comes into force on 1st August 2023.

Interpretation

2.  In this Order—

“the floating bridge” has the meaning given to that expression in section 2 of the Dartmouth-Kingswear Floating Bridge Act 1988(1);

“goods vehicles” means a motor vehicle or trailer constructed or adapted for use for the carriage or haulage of goods or burden of any description;

“maximum authorised mass” means the “maximum gross weight” indicated upon the plate required to be attached to the vehicle by regulations 66 or 70 of the Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986(2);

“passenger vehicle” means a vehicle constructed solely for the carriage of passengers and their effects.

Floating Bridge Tolls

3.  The tolls that the Dartmouth-Kingswear Floating Bridge Company Limited (3) may demand, take and recover for the use of the floating bridge are revised so that those tolls must not exceed the sums set out in the Schedule to this Order.

Revocation

4.  The Dartmouth-Kingswear Floating Bridge (Revisions of Charges) Order 2017(4) is revoked.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport

M Gilmour

A Senior Civil Servant

Department for Transport

17th July 2023