{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/a282-trunk-road-dartford-thurrock-crossing-charging-scheme-order-2013/schedule-3/paragraph-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2013/2249",
  "legislation_title": "The A282 Trunk Road (Dartford-Thurrock Crossing Charging Scheme) Order 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/a282-trunk-road-dartford-thurrock-crossing-charging-scheme-order-2013",
  "path": "schedule/3/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "The following descriptions of motor vehicles are exempt from the first and second charging regimes—\n(1) a vehicle which is—\n(a) being used in the execution of duty; and\n(b) exempt from vehicle excise duty under—\n(i) paragraph 3A (police vehicles);\n(ii) paragraph 4 (fire engines);\n(iii) paragraph 5 (fire and rescue authority vehicles);\n(iv) paragraph 6 (ambulances); or\n(v) paragraph 7 (vehicles being used or kept on a road by a health service body, a National Health Service trust, an NHS foundation trust, a Local Health Board or the Care Quality Commission),\nof Schedule 2 to the Vehicle Excise and Registration Act 1994.\n(2) a vehicle which is exempt from vehicle excise duty under—\n(a) paragraph 18 or 19 (vehicles for use by or for purposes of certain disabled people); or\n(b) paragraph 20 (vehicles used for carriage of disabled people by recognised bodies),\nof Schedule 2 to the Vehicle Excise and Registration Act 1994.\n(3) a military vehicle that is, a vehicle used for army, naval or air force purposes, while being driven by persons for the time being subject to the orders of a member of the armed forces of the Crown;\n(4) a military vehicle of a visiting force that is, a vehicle used for army, naval or air force purposes, whilst being driven by a person who is part of any unit, contingent or detachment of a visiting force of a country, being present in the United Kingdom on the invitation of Her Majesty’s Government in the United Kingdom;\n(5) an omnibus being used for a local service as defined by section 2 of the Transport Act 1985;\n(6) a vehicle being used in connection with—\n(a) the collection of charges; or\n(b) the inspection, safety, maintenance, improvement or renewal of or other dealing with the length of road described in Schedule 1 or any structure, works or apparatus in, on, under or over that length of road; and\n(7) a vehicle used by or escorted by the Vehicle and Operator Service Agency in the execution of duty.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 3 para. 1 in force at 1.10.2013, see art. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1994 c.22"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1985 c. 67."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/2249/schedule/3/paragraph/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:42:11.897192+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}