{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-user-charging-schemes-penalty-charges-adjudication-and-enforcement-england-regulations-2013/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-user-charging-schemes-penalty-charges-adjudication-and-enforcement-england-regulations-2013/regulation-5.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/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Setting the rates and maximum amounts of penalty charge",
  "text": "(1) The rates of penalty charges imposed by a charging scheme are to be—\n(a) specified in the charging scheme; or\n(b) communicated to users of the designated road in the manner specified in the charging scheme.\n(2) A charging scheme is to provide that a penalty charge arising under regulation 4(1) is to be paid in full within the period of 28 days beginning with the date on which a penalty charge notice is served.\n(3) If the penalty charge of the type described in regulation 4(1) is paid prior to the end of the fourteenth day of the period referred in paragraph (2) the charging scheme is to provide that it is reduced by one half.\n(4) If the penalty charge of the type described in regulation 4(1) is not paid before a charge certificate to which it relates is served by the charging authority in accordance with regulation 17, the charging scheme is to provide that the penalty charge is increased by one half.\n(5) The maximum amount of the penalty charge that a charging scheme may impose of the type described in regulation 4(1) is £120.\n(6) The maximum amount of the penalty charge that a charging scheme may impose of the type described in regulation 4(2)(a) is £70.\n(7) The maximum amount of the penalty charge that a charging scheme may impose of the type described in regulation 4(2)(b) is £200.\n(8) The maximum amount of the penalty charge that a charging scheme may impose of the type described in regulation 4(2)(c) is £40 for each day or part of a day during which the motor vehicle is stored.\n(9) The maximum amount of the penalty charge that a charging scheme may impose of the type described in regulation 4(2)(d) is £70.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 5 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/5",
    "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."
}