The Road User Charging Schemes (Penalty Charges, Adjudication and Enforcement) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2014
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 2014/81 |
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2014No. 81
ROAD TRAFFIC, ENGLAND
The Road User Charging Schemes (Penalty Charges, Adjudication and Enforcement) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2014
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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 2000( 1) makes the following Regulations.
Citation, commencement and application
1. 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 2013
2. The Road User Charging Schemes (Penalty Charges, Adjudication and Enforcement) (England) Regulations 2013( 2) are amended in accordance with regulations 3 and 4.
Amendment of regulation 6
3. (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...
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