# The Vehicles (Charges for Release from Immobilisation Devices) Regulations 1991

S.I. 1991/338 · made 25 February 1991

Section 104 of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 empowers a constable to fix an immobilisation device to an illegally parked vehicle and provides for a charge to be prescribed for the release of a vehicle from a device which has been affixed to it in accordance with the section. By virtue of the Vehicles (Charges for Release from Immobilisation Devices) Regulations 1989 (S.I. 1989/745) the prescribed charge is £30. These Regulations revoke the 1989 Regulations and prescribe a new charge of £32.

Made under: Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 (Section 104, Section 142)

## Introductory text

ROAD TRAFFIC
Made 25th February 1991
Laid before Parliament 5th March 1991
Coming into force 1st April 1991
In exercise of the powers conferred upon me by sections 104(4) and 142(1) of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984, I hereby make the following regulations:

## 1 

(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Vehicles (Charges for Release from Immobilisation Devices) Regulations 1991 and shall come into force on 1st April 1991.
2. The Vehicles (Charges for Release from Immobilisation Devices) Regulations 1989 are hereby revoked.

## 2 

For the purposes of section 104(4) of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984, the charge in respect of the release of a vehicle from an immobilisation device shall be £32.

## Signature

Kenneth Baker
One of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State
Home Office
25th February 1991

## Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)
Section 104 of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 empowers a constable to fix an immobilisation device to an illegally parked vehicle and provides for a charge to be prescribed for the release of a vehicle from a device which has been affixed to it in accordance with the section. By virtue of the Vehicles (Charges for Release from Immobilisation Devices) Regulations 1989 (S.I. 1989/745) the prescribed charge is £30. These Regulations revoke the 1989 Regulations and prescribe a new charge of £32.

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