Section 112: Charges
272.This section amends section 171(5) of the TA 2000 and paragraph 10(4) of Schedule 23 to the GLA Act 1999, which specify a number of examples of how a charging scheme can impose different charges for different cases.
273.The amendments provide that, in addition to the cases already specified in each provision, local authorities may vary charges according to the methods or means of recording, administering, collecting or paying the charge. This could, for example, allow different rates to be applied where a road user chooses to have charges recorded automatically by means of different technologies, or to pay by different means (such as a pre-pay account or direct debit).