Commentary Part 6: Local and London charging schemes Section 121: Other amendments relating to schemes under Part 3 of TA 2000
292.This section introduces Schedule 6, which makes amendments to Schedule 12 to the TA 2000 (financial provisions relating to road user charging and workplace parking levy schemes) and to Schedule 23 to the GLA Act 1999 (road user charging).
293.Paragraph 8 of Schedule 12 is amended and paragraph 9 is repealed. The effect is that all the net proceeds of all local charging schemes are to be used for local transport purposes.
294.Paragraphs 10 and 11 are amended to require a detailed programme for the application of the net proceeds of a charging scheme to be produced every five years from the date on which the scheme comes into force, rather than linking the timing of the production of the detailed programme to the timing of the production of the local transport plan.
295.Paragraph 10(3) is amended so as to remove the requirement for the Secretary of State to approve a charging authority’s general plans and specific programmes for the application of the net proceeds of a charging scheme in England before the relevant scheme order can come into force. This amendment does not have effect in relation to charging schemes in Wales, thus preserving the existing requirement for approval of such plans and programmes by the Welsh Ministers.
296.Paragraph 12 is amended to remove the Secretary of State’s power to make regulations determining the application of proceeds by London traffic authorities from a joint London-local scheme. Instead, the proceeds will be applied in the same way as they would be in a scheme made under Schedule 23 to the GLA Act 1999.
297.Paragraph 13 is amended so that all proceeds of a trunk road charging scheme made by virtue of section 167(2)(b) of the TA 2000 are available only for application by the Secretary of State or Welsh Ministers for the purpose of directly or indirectly facilitating the achievement of any policies or proposals relating to transport.
298.Paragraphs 16 and 17 of Schedule 23 to the GLA Act 1999 are amended to the effect that all the net proceeds of all London charging schemes are to be used for relevant transport purposes, rather than enabling net proceeds in some circumstances to be applied as specified by the appropriate national authority.
299.Paragraph 18 of Schedule 23 to the GLA Act 1999 is amended to allow the Secretary of State to share in revenues from a charging scheme in London which includes a trunk road.