Statutory Instruments
2017 No. 1239
Road Traffic
The Road Vehicles (Payment of Duty by Credit Card) (Prescribed Fee) Regulations 2017
Made
6th December 2017
Laid before Parliament
14th December 2017
Coming into force
13th January 2018
The Secretary of State makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 19C(2) and (4), and 57(1) and (2)(b), of the Vehicle Excise and Registration Act 1994( 1 ).
The Secretary of State has received the approval of the Treasury to the making of these Regulations as required by section 58(1) of that Act( 2 ).
Citation and Commencement
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Road Vehicles (Payment of Duty by Credit Card) (Prescribed Fee) Regulations 2017 and come into force on 13th January 2018.
Prescribed fee
2. The fee prescribed for the purposes of section 19C(2) of the Vehicle Excise and Registration Act 1994 is £2.50 in respect of the acceptance of a credit card payment of the duty payable on each vehicle licence or trade licence for which application is made.
Meaning of “credit card”
3. —(1) For the purposes of section 19C “credit card” means a commercial card where used to initiate a credit card transaction.
(2) In this regulation “commercial card” and “credit card transaction” have the meanings given in Article 2(6) and 2(5) of Regulation (EU) 2015/751 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29th April 2015 on interchange fees for card-based payment transactions( 3 ).
Revocation
4.The Road Vehicles (Payment of Duty by Credit Card) (Prescribed Fee) Regulations 2005( 4 ) are revoked.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport
Jesse Norman
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State
Department for Transport
5th December 2017
We approve the making of these Regulations
David Evennett
Andrew Griffiths
Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury
6th December 2017
1994 c.22 ; section 19C was inserted by the Finance Act 2004, section 18(1) and (2).
Section 58(1) was amended by the Finance Act 2004 (c.12) , section 18(1) and (3), and by the Finance Act 2014 (c.26) , Schedule 19, paragraphs 1 and 19.
OJ No L 123, 19.5.2015, p.1.