The Erskine Bridge Tolls Order 1992

Article 6

SCHEDULE DESCRIPTIONS OF VEHICLES EXEMPTED FROM PAYMENT OF TOLLS

1.  Any vehicle belonging to a fire authority and being used in the discharge of the functions of such authority under the Fire Service Acts 1947 to 1959(1).

2.  Any vehicle belonging to, and being used for the purposes of, a police authority, and any other vehicle being used by a police officer acting in the execution of his duty.

3.  Any ambulance or other means of transport provided under section 45 of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978(2).

4.  Those vehicles, not at any one time exceeding five in number, belonging to the Princess Louise Scottish Hospital for Limbless Sailors and Soldiers, Erskine in respect of which the Secretary of State has issued a written authorisation exempting them from payment.

5.  Any vehicle being used in connection with the levying of tolls, or with the inspection, maintenance, repair, renewal, or improvement of, or the provision of additions to, the specified roads (including any part of them and any structure, works or apparatus in, on, under or over them).

6.  Any northbound vehicle which, as a direct result of having broken down on the specified roads, thereupon re-enters those roads travelling southwards but not under its own power.

7.  Any vehicle fitted with controls enabling it to be driven by a person having a particular disability and which, in accordance with section 7(2) of the Vehicles (Excise) Act 1971(3), is not charged with any duty under that Act.

8.  Any vehicle displaying a badge issued by a local authority in exercise of its powers under section 21 of the Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act 1970(4) and conveying, either as driver or passenger, the disabled person in respect of whom such badge was issued.

9.  Any motor bicycle or motor scooter with or without sidecar, and any power assisted bicycle or tricycle.

(1)

1947 c. 41; 1951 c. 27; 1959 c. 44.

(2)

1978 c. 29.

(3)

1971 c. 10; section 7(2) was substituted by section 8(1) of the Finance Act 1978 (c. 42) and was amended by section 4(6) of the Finance Act 1980 (c. 48) and by section 5(2) of the Finance Act 1984 (c. 43).

(4)

1970 c. 44; section 21 was amended by the Local Government Act 1972 (c. 70), Schedule 30, by the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 (c. 65), Schedule 14, paragraph 81, by the Transport Act 1982 (c. 49), section 68, by the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 (c. 27), Schedule 13, paragraph 11 and by the Local Government Act 1985 (c. 51), Schedule 5, paragraph 1.