{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-user-charging-schemes-penalty-charges-adjudication-and-enforcement-england-regulations-2013/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-user-charging-schemes-penalty-charges-adjudication-and-enforcement-england-regulations-2013/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2013/1783",
  "legislation_title": "The Road User Charging Schemes (Penalty Charges, Adjudication and Enforcement) (England) Regulations 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-user-charging-schemes-penalty-charges-adjudication-and-enforcement-england-regulations-2013",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations—\n“adjudicator” means a person appointed to be a road user charging scheme adjudicator in accordance with regulation 12(1) or (2);\n“appellant” in relation to an appeal under these Regulations or any process connected with such an appeal, means the person bringing the appeal;\n“authorised person” has the meaning given by regulation 21;\n“charge certificate” has the meaning given by regulation 17(1);\n“custodian” in relation to a motor vehicle removed under regulation 27 means—\n(i)if the motor vehicle has been delivered to the charging authority, that charging authority; or\n(ii)if the motor vehicle has been delivered to a person authorised by the charging authority to keep motor vehicles so removed in their custody, that other person;\n“designated road” means a road designated by a charging scheme as a road to which a road user charge applies;\n“electronic transmission” means a communication transmitted—\n(i)by means of an electronic communications network; or\n(ii)by other means but while in electronic form;\n“fax” means the making of a facsimile copy of a document by the transmission of electronic signals;\n“joint committee” means the joint committee set up in accordance with regulation 19 of the Civil Enforcement of Road Traffic Contraventions (Approved Devices, Charging Guidelines and General Provisions) (England) Regulations 2022;\n“keeper” (other than in the phrase “registered keeper”) means the person by whom a motor vehicle was kept at the time it was immobilised, removed or disposed of under the powers in Part 6;\n“notice of appeal” means a notice initiating an appeal delivered by an appellant to the proper officer under regulation 11(3), 34(2) or 37(2) in each case in accordance with paragraph 2 of the Schedule;\n“notice of rejection” means a notice served by a charging authority under regulation 10(1), 33(4) or 36(4) rejecting, or not accepting, representations made to it;\n“penalty charge” means a charging scheme penalty charge;\n“penalty charge notice” has the meaning given by regulation 7(1);\n“procedural impropriety” has the meaning given by regulation 8(4);\n“proper officer” means a person appointed under regulation 13(1);\n“road user charge” means a charge imposed under a charging scheme which is not a penalty charge;\n“witness statement” means a statement which is a witness statement for the purposes of the Civil Procedure Rules 1998 and which is supported by a statement of truth in accordance with Part 22 of those Rules.\n(2) In determining for the purposes of any provision of these Regulations whether a road user charge or penalty charge has been paid within a particular period, it is to be taken to be paid when it is received by the charging authority.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(1) substituted (E.) (31.5.2022) by The Civil Enforcement of Road Traffic Contraventions (Approved Devices, Charging Guidelines and General Provisions) (England) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/71), reg. 1(2), Sch. 4 para. 5(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 2 in force at 2.9.2013, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1998/3132. Relevant amending instruments for Rule 22.1 are S.I. 2001/1769, 2001/4015 and 2004/3419."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/1783/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:47:32.346144+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."
}