{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-user-charging-charges-and-penalty-charges-london-regulations-2001/regulation-11",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-user-charging-charges-and-penalty-charges-london-regulations-2001/regulation-11.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2001/2285",
  "legislation_title": "The Road User Charging (Charges and Penalty Charges) (London) Regulations 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-user-charging-charges-and-penalty-charges-london-regulations-2001",
  "path": "regulation/11",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "11",
  "heading": "Release of immobilised vehicles",
  "text": "(1) Where a charging scheme makes provision for the immobilisation of vehicles the scheme shall provide that, where an immobilisation device is fitted to a vehicle in accordance with the scheme, the person fitting the device shall also fix to the vehicle an immobilisation notice indicating that the vehicle shall be released—\n(a) if all outstanding penalty charges, or such outstanding penalty charges as the relevant charging scheme may prescribe for the purposes of this sub-paragraph, are paid to the charging authority;\n(b) if any penalty charge imposed by the relevant charging scheme for the release of the vehicle from the immobilisation device is paid; and\n(c) where at the time the device is fitted the vehicle is being kept on a road in the charging area in circumstances where a charge is payable, if that charge is also paid to the charging authority.\n(2) For the purposes of these Regulations a penalty charge is outstanding in relation to a vehicle if—\n(a) it is a penalty charge imposed by a charging scheme in respect of the use or keeping of the vehicle in the charging area to which the scheme relates;\n(b) it has either not been paid before the end of the relevant period as defined by regulation 17(2) or (3) as the case maybe, of the Enforcement Regulations or it has not been cancelled; and\n(c) it is not the subject of an outstanding appeal.\n(3) For the purposes of paragraph (2)(c), a penalty charge is to be treated as being the subject of an outstanding appeal if—\n(a) no representations against the penalty charge notice have been made to the charging authority as mentioned in regulation 13(1) of the Enforcement Regulations, but the period specified in regulation 13(2) of the Enforcement Regulations has not ended;\n(b) such representations have been made and the charging authority has not served notice in accordance with regulation 13(6) of the Enforcement Regulations of their decision as to whether or not they accept that the ground on which the representations were made has been established;\n(c) such representations have been made and the charging authority has served notice under regulation 13(6) of the Enforcement Regulations that they do not accept that the ground on which the representations were made has been established and no appeal to an adjudicator has been made, but the period for making an appeal to an adjudicator specified in regulation 16(1)(a) of those Regulations has not ended; or\n(d) such an appeal has been made but has not been determined.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 11(2)(3) substituted (17.2.2003) by The Road User Charging (Charges and Penalty Charges) (London) (Amendment) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/109), regs. 1, 6"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 11 in force at 16.7.2001, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/2285/regulation/11",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T07:45:28.906446+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."
}