{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-user-charging-schemes-penalty-charges-adjudication-and-enforcement-england-regulations-2013/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-user-charging-schemes-penalty-charges-adjudication-and-enforcement-england-regulations-2013/regulation-4.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/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Imposition of penalty charge",
  "text": "(1) A charging scheme may provide that a penalty charge is to be imposed in respect of a motor vehicle where—\n(a) the motor vehicle has been used or kept on a designated road;\n(b) events have occurred by reference to the happening of which a road user charge is imposed by the charging scheme; and\n(c) the road user charge has not been paid in full within the time and in the manner in which it is required by the charging scheme to be paid.\n(2) A charging scheme may further provide that a penalty charge is to be imposed in respect of—\n(a) the release of a motor vehicle from an immobilisation device fixed to it in accordance with regulation 25;\n(b) the removal of a motor vehicle in accordance with regulation 27;\n(c) the storage and release from storage of a motor vehicle so removed; and\n(d) the disposal of a motor vehicle so removed in accordance with regulation 28.\n(3) If a charging scheme so provides a penalty charge is to be payable.\n(4) A charging scheme is to specify whether a penalty charge referred to in paragraph (1) or (2) is payable in addition to the road user charge or instead of such charge.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 4 in force at 2.9.2013, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/1783/regulation/4",
    "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."
}