Statutory Instrument 1996 No. 2046

The Dartford-Thurrock Crossing Tolls Order 1996

(The document as of February, 2008)

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STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS

1996 No. 2046

HIGHWAYS, ENGLAND AND WALES

The Dartford-Thurrock Crossing Tolls Order 1996

Made	5th August 1996

Coming into force

1st September 1996

The Secretary of State for Transport, in exercise of the power conferred by subsection (4) of section 17 of the Dartford-Thurrock Crossing Act 1988^[1] and within the period of seven days next following 1st August 1996, which is the next revision date for the purposes of that subsection, as defined by subsection (3) of the said section 17, hereby makes the following Order: —

    1.    This Order may be cited as the Dartford-Thurrock Crossing Tolls Order 1996 and shall, in accordance with section 17(11) of the Dartford-Thurrock Crossing Act 1988, come into force on 1st September 1996.

    2.—(1)  The toll leviable in respect of each of the classes of vehicles set out in column (1) of the Schedule to this Order shall be of the amount set out or described opposite thereto in column (2) of that Schedule.

    (2)  For the purposes of determining the class of vehicles to which a trailer belongs, a trailer which, when being drawn, is attached to the vehicle drawing it by partial superimposition shall be regarded as part of the vehicle drawing it and not as a separate vehicle.

    3.    The Dartford-Thurrock Crossing Tolls Order 1995^[2] is hereby revoked.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport

John Bowis

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State,
Department of Transport

5th August 1996

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Notes:

[1] 1988 c. 20.

[2] S.I. 1995/2059.

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