{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/dartford-thurrock-crossing-regulations-1998/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/dartford-thurrock-crossing-regulations-1998/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1998/1908",
  "legislation_title": "The Dartford-Thurrock Crossing Regulations 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/dartford-thurrock-crossing-regulations-1998",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Abnormal loads",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2) below, the driver of a vehicle which is of a description set out in the first column of the table below, or a person on his behalf, shall pay to the crossing operator, in addition to any toll payable for the use of the crossing by that vehicle—\n(a) such charge for the use of the tunnels by that vehicle as is set out in respect thereof in Part I of that table;\n(b) such charge for the use of the bridge by that vehicle as is set out in respect thereof in Part II of that table.\nPART I\nTime of Commencement of Passage\nCharge\nOverall width\nGreater than 2.75 metres and not more than 6.1 metres\nPassage commencing after 06.00 hours and before 22.00 hours\n£40\nGreater than 2.75 metres and not more than 6.1 metres\nPassage commencing on or after 22.00 hours and on or before 06.00 hours\n£20\nGreater than 6.1 metres\nAt any time\n£184\nOverall length\nGreater than 18.75 metres and not more than 27.4 metres\nPassage commencing after 06.00 hour and before 22.00 hours\n£40\nGreater than 18.75 metres and not more than 27.4 metres\nPassage commencing on or after 22.00 hours and on or before 06.00 hours\n£20\nGreater than 27.4 metres\nAt any time\n£184\nTotal weight of vehicle\nGreater than 150,000 kilograms\nAt any time\n£184\nPART II\nTime of Commencement of Passage\nCharge\nOverall width\nGreater than 3.65 metres but less than or equal to 6.1 metres\nPassage commencing after 06.00 hours and before 22.00 hours\n£40\nGreater than 3.76 metres but less than or equal to 6.1 metres\nPassage commencing on or after 22.00 hours and on or before 06.00 hours\n£20\nGreater than 6.1 metres\nAt any time\n£184\nOverall length Greater than 27.4 metres\nAt any time\n£184\nTotal weight of vehicle Greater than 150,000 kilograms\nAt any time\n£184\n(2) Where, by virtue of its characteristics, two or more charges are prescribed by paragraph (1) above in respect of any vehicle, the person specified in that paragraph shall be liable to pay only the higher or the highest (as the case may be) of such charges in respect of that vehicle.\n(3) In this regulation references to a vehicle shall be taken to include any load carried and any trailer drawn by a vehicle.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "am",
      "affecting": "uksi/2003/496",
      "affecting_title": "The Dartford-Thurrock Crossing (Amendment) Regulations 2003"
    },
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2014/2949",
      "affecting_title": "The Dartford-Thurrock Crossing (Amendment) Regulations 2014"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/1908/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:23:52.614548+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."
}