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The River Mersey (Mersey Gateway Bridge) Order 2011

Type Statutory-Instrument
Publication 2011-01-11
State In force
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  • (4) The undertaker may apply the toll ranges or classifications of vehicles or classes of vehicles (as the case may be) determined pursuant to sub-paragraph (2) from the day 28 days after which the notice referred to in sub-paragraph (3) is published.

PART 2 — CLASSIFICATION OF VEHICLES

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In this Schedule—

“class 1 vehicle” means a moped falling within classifications A(a) and A(b); motorcycles falling within classifications B(a) and B(b); motor tricycles falling within classifications C(a) and C(b); and quadricycles falling within classifications D(a), D(b), E(a) and E(b).
“class 2 vehicle” means motor vehicles with at least four wheels, used for the carriage of passengers, falling within classifications M₁(a) and M₁(b); and motor vehicles with at least four wheels, used for the carriage of goods falling within classification N₁(a).
“class 3 vehicle” means motor caravans falling within classifications L(a) and L(b); motor vehicles with at least four wheels, used for the carriage of passengers falling within classifications M₂(a) and M₂(b); and motor vehicles with at least four wheels used for the carriage of goods, falling within classifications N₁(b), N₂(a) and N₂(b).
“class 4 vehicle” means motor vehicles with at least four wheels, used for the carriage of passengers falling within classifications M₃(a) and M₃(b); and motor vehicles with at least four wheels used for the carriage of goods, falling within classifications N₃(a) and N₃(b).

SCHEDULE 12 — REGISTER OF VEHICLES EXEMPT FROM TOLLS

PART 1

1

Tolls may not be levied in respect of—

  • (a) a vehicle whose details have been recorded on the exemptions register in accordance with Part 2 of this Schedule and, in the case of those listed in paragraphs 2(a) to (d), being used in the execution of duty; or
  • (b) a vehicle being used in connection with—
  • (i) the collection of tolls or charges; or
  • (ii) the maintenance, improvement or renewal of, or other dealing with, the Silver Jubilee Bridge or the new crossing or any structure, works or apparatus in, on, under or over any part of the new crossing or Silver Jubilee Bridge; or
  • (c) a vehicle which, having broken down on the Silver Jubilee Bridge or the new crossing while travelling in one direction, is travelling in the opposite direction otherwise than under its own power; or
  • (d) a military vehicle, that is, a vehicle used for army, naval or air force purposes, while being driven by persons for the time being subject to the orders of a member of the armed forces of the Crown.

PART 2

2

Vehicles falling within the following descriptions of motor vehicles shall be eligible to be entered upon the exemptions register—

  • (a) a police vehicle, identifiable as such by writing or markings on it or otherwise by its appearance, or being the property of the Service Authority for the National Criminal Intelligence Service or the Service Authority for the National Crime Squad;
  • (b) a fire engine as defined by paragraph 4(2) of Schedule 2 to the Vehicle Excise and Registration Act 1994[^f00050];
  • (c) a vehicle which is kept by a fire authority as defined by paragraph 5 of that Schedule;
  • (d) an ambulance as defined by paragraph 6(2) of that Schedule; or
  • (e) a vehicle owned by or being used for the transport of a person who has a disabled person’s badge and which displays a current disabled person’s badge issued under—
  • (i) section 21 of the Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act 1970[^f00051], or
  • (ii) section 14 of the Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons (Northern Ireland) Act 1978[^f00052].
3

The undertaker may require that an application to enter particulars of a vehicle on the exemptions register or to renew the registration of a vehicle—

  • (a) shall include all such information as the undertaker may reasonably require; and
  • (b) shall be made by such means as the undertaker may accept.
4

Registration of a vehicle upon the exemptions register, and the use to which that vehicle must be put to qualify as exempt from tolls, shall be subject to the imposition of such further conditions as the undertaker may reasonably impose.

5

Where the undertaker receives an application that complies with paragraph 3 to enter particulars of a vehicle on the exemptions register, or to renew the registration of a vehicle, and the vehicle falls within the descriptions set out in paragraph 2 it shall enter the particulars of that vehicle on the exemptions register within 20 working days of receiving such an application.

6

The undertaker shall remove particulars of a vehicle from the exemptions register—

  • (a) in the case of a vehicle registered in relation to the holder of a disabled person’s badge, when that person ceases to be an eligible person for a disabled person’s badge as set out in paragraph 2(e);
  • (b) in the case of any vehicle at the end of the period of 7 consecutive days beginning with the day on which a change in the keeper of the vehicle occurred, unless the undertaker renews the registration for a further period on application to it by or on behalf of the new keeper.
7

Where the registered keeper of a vehicle is aware that the vehicle has ceased or will cease to be a vehicle eligible to be entered on the exemptions register, the keeper shall notify the undertaker of the fact and the undertaker shall remove the particulars of the vehicle from the exemptions register as soon as reasonably practicable or from the date notified to the undertaker as the date on which it will cease to be a vehicle eligible to be recorded on the exemptions register.

8

If the undertaker is no longer satisfied that a vehicle is an exempt vehicle it shall—

  • (a) remove the particulars of a vehicle from the exemptions register; and
  • (b) notify the registered keeper.
9

Nothing in this Schedule shall prevent the making of a fresh application for particulars of a vehicle to be entered in the exemptions register after they have been removed from it in accordance with any provision of this Part of this Schedule.

SCHEDULE 13 — MANCHESTER SHIP CANAL ACTS AND ORDERS

  • Manchester Ship Canal (Additional Capital, & c.) Act 1893 c. xxiii
  • Manchester Ship Canal (Bridgewater Canal) Act 1907 c. xv
  • Manchester Ship Canal (Various Powers) Act 1907 c. xxx
  • The Manchester Ship Canal (Black Bear Canal) (Local Enactments) Order 1976 (S.I. 1976/1084)
  • The Manchester Ship Canal (Bridgewater Canal) Act 1907 (Amendment) Order 1996 (S.I. 1996/1484)
  • The Manchester Ship Canal Harbour Revision Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/2579)

Signed

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport

Ellis Harvey — Head of the Transport and Works Act Orders Unit — Department for Transport — 11th January 2011

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Order authorises Halton Borough Council to construct, operate and maintain a bridge between Runcorn and Widnes for vehicles over and in the River Mersey and St Helen’s Canal and over the Manchester Ship Canal and Bridgewater Canal together with all the necessary related and ancillary works. For the purpose of the new bridge the Order authorises Halton Borough Council, compulsorily or by agreement to purchase land and rights in land and to use lands. It provides for the new bridge over the River Mersey to be subject to tolls payable by those who use the new bridge in vehicles, and for enforcement powers in respect of non-payment of such tolls. The Order also authorises the making of alterations to the highway network, the power temporarily to close the River Mersey, St Helen’s Canal, Manchester Ship Canal and Bridgewater Canal, to remove vessels and to make byelaws.

A copy of the works plans and the land plans and book of reference mentioned in this Order and certified in accordance with article 59 (certification of plans, etc.) of this Order may be inspected free of charge at the offices of Halton Borough Council, Municipal Building, Kingsway, Widnes WA8 7QF.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: S.I. 2006/1466.

[^f00002]: 1992 c. 42. Part 1 of this Act is amended by S.I. 1995/1541, 1998/2226, 2000/3199 and 2006/958.

[^f00003]: 1964 c. 40.

[^f00004]: 1961 c. 33.

[^f00005]: 1965 c. 56.

[^f00006]: 1980 c. 66.

[^f00007]: 1990 c. 8.

[^f00008]: 1991 c. 22. As amended by the Traffic Management Act 2004 c. 18.

[^f00009]: 2000 c. 38.

[^f00010]: 1981 c. 67.

[^f00011]: 1994 c. 22.

[^f00012]: 1947 c. xxix.

[^f00013]: 1955 c. xxviii.

[^f00014]: 1984 c. 27.

[^f00015]: 1991 c. 56.

[^f00016]: S.I. 2010/675.

[^f00017]: 1964 c. 40.

[^f00018]: 1979 c. 46.

[^f00019]: 1981 c. 67.

[^f00020]: 1981 c. 66.

[^f00021]: S.I. 2001/2793.

[^f00022]: 1988 c. 53.

[^f00023]: OJL 187, 20.7.1999, p 42.

[^f00024]: OJL 157, 9.6.2006, p 8.

[^f00025]: OJL 363, 20.12.2006, p 344.

[^f00026]: S.I. 1969/17.

[^f00027]: S.I. 1975/148.

[^f00028]: S.I. 1999/1892.

[^f00029]: 2006 c. 26.

[^f00030]: 1990 c. 43.

[^f00031]: 1974 c. 40.

[^f00032]: 1842 c. cx.

[^f00033]: 1978 c. 30.

[^f00034]: 1973 c. 26.

[^f00035]: S.I. 2011/41.

[^f00036]: 2003 c. 21.

[^f00037]: 1980 c. 66.

[^f00038]: 1971 c. lvii.

[^f00039]: 1991 c. 57.

[^f00040]: 1991 c. 59.

[^f00041]: 1993 c. 43.

[^f00042]: 2006 c. 46.

[^f00043]: 1991 c. 56.

[^f00044]: 2003 c. 21.

[^f00045]: 1984 c. 12.

[^f00046]: S.I. 2003/1998.

[^f00047]: 1972 c. 70.

[^f00048]: 1992 c. 53.

[^f00049]: S.I. 2001/2793.

[^f00050]: 1994 c. 22.

[^f00051]: 1970 c. 44.

[^f00052]: 1978 c. 53.

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