The Road Tolling (Interoperability of Electronic Road User Charging and Road Tolling Systems) Regulations 2007

Exemption certificates

5.—(1) If the appropriate national authority is satisfied that one or more of the grounds specified in paragraph (2) is established in respect of an electronic toll system, it must issue an exemption certificate in respect of the system.

(2) The grounds are—

(a) that no electronic means exist for the purpose of charging and collecting any tolls or fares;

(b) that the system is designed to operate without the use by the motor vehicle of an on-board electronic device;

(c) that—

(i) the system is small and strictly local, and

(ii) the costs of complying with regulation 4 would be disproportionate to the benefits of doing so.

(3) An application for an exemption certificate must—

(a) state the grounds on which the application is made,

(b) be made in such manner as the authority may direct, and

(c) contain, or be accompanied by, such other information as the authority may require.

(4) At any time after receiving an application and before determining it, the authority may require the applicant to provide the authority with such further information as it reasonably considers necessary to enable it to determine the application.

(5) The applicant may withdraw his application, by giving the authority written notice, at any time before the authority determines it.

(6) If the authority issues an exemption certificate, it must give the applicant written notice.

(7) An appropriate national authority which issues an exemption certificate under this regulation may revoke the certificate if it considers that grounds for issuing the certificate no longer exist.