{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-user-charging-schemes-penalty-charges-adjudication-and-enforcement-england-regulations-2013/regulation-20",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-user-charging-schemes-penalty-charges-adjudication-and-enforcement-england-regulations-2013/regulation-20.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/20",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "20",
  "heading": "Enforcement by execution",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2)—\n(a) a sum to be paid by a person (other than a charging authority) under an adjudication of an adjudicator which is recoverable in accordance with regulation 16 as if it were payable under a county court order; or\n(b) an unpaid penalty charge (and, if applicable, the road user charge payable under the charging scheme) which is recoverable in accordance with regulation 18 as if it were payable under a county court order,\nis to be treated for purposes of enforcement by execution as if it were a specified debt in regulation 2 of the Enforcement of Road Traffic Debts Order 1993 (“the 1993 Order”).\n(2) For the purposes of the enforcement of the payment of a sum referred to in paragraph (1)(a) or the enforcement of an unpaid penalty charge (and, if applicable an unpaid road user charge payable under a charging scheme) referred to in paragraph 1(b)—\n(a) any reference in the 1993 Order to “the authority” is to be read as a reference to a charging authority; and\n(b) the reference in articles 3(1) and (2) of the 1993 Order to “the time for serving a statutory declaration” is to be read as a reference to “the time for serving a witness statement” and is—\n(i) the period of 21 days allowed by regulation 19(1)(c); or\n(ii) where a longer period has been allowed pursuant to regulation 19(3), that period.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 20 in force at 2.9.2013, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1993/2073, amended by SI 2001/1386."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/1783/regulation/20",
    "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."
}