# The Road User Charging Schemes (Penalty Charges, Adjudication and Enforcement) (England) Regulations 2013, Regulation 20: Enforcement by execution

Extent: E+W

(1) Subject to paragraph (2)—
(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
(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,
is 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”).
(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)—
(a) any reference in the 1993 Order to “the authority” is to be read as a reference to a charging authority; and
(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—
(i) the period of 21 days allowed by regulation 19(1)(c); or
(ii) where a longer period has been allowed pursuant to regulation 19(3), that period.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/1783/regulation/20 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/road-user-charging-schemes-penalty-charges-adjudication-and-enforcement-england-regulations-2013/regulation-20
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