HGV Road User Levy Act 2013

General

19Interpretation

(1)In this Act—

• “the 1994 Act” means the Vehicle Excise and Registration Act 1994;

• “heavy goods vehicle”, “UK heavy goods vehicle” and “non-UK heavy goods vehicle” each has the meaning given in section 2;

• “prescribed” means prescribed by regulations;

• “revenue weight” has the same meaning as in the 1994 Act (see section 60A of that Act).

(2)Regulations under paragraph 13 of Schedule 1 to the 1994 Act (under which goods vehicles are in some cases treated as having a lower revenue weight for the purposes of Part 8 of that Schedule) have effect also for the purposes of this Act.

(3)For the purposes of this Act—

(a)HGV road user levy is paid in respect of a particular day if the levy charged in respect of the vehicle in question is paid either for that day or for a period which includes that day;

(b)where a person receives a rebate of levy in respect of a vehicle under section 7, the person is treated as not having paid levy in respect of the vehicle for the period starting with the day after the date of the application for the rebate and ending with the end of the levy period.

20Extent

This Act extends to England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, except that an amendment by this Act of another enactment has the same extent as the enactment amended.

21Commencement

(1)This Act comes into force in accordance with provision made by order by the Secretary of State.

(2)Different provision may be made under subsection (1) for different purposes.

In particular, different transitional provision (made by virtue of section 18(1)) may be made for UK heavy goods vehicles and non-UK heavy goods vehicles.

(3)Subsection (1) does not apply to sections 17 to 22 (which accordingly come into force on the day on which this Act is passed).

22Short title

This Act may be cited as the HGV Road User Levy Act 2013.