Introduction Details of the Section
2.Subsection (2) revises paragraph 4 of Schedule 1 to the HGV Road User Levy Act 2013, so that heavy goods vehicles with a revenue weight in excess of 44,000kg are subject to Levy Band G, but for rigid goods vehicles that meet this revenue weight condition when drawing trailers exceeding 4,000kg plated weight, which are subject to Levy Band E(T).
3.Subsection (3) introduces revised tables to the HGV Road User Levy Act 2013.  These will allow the Levy to be collected from certain categories of goods vehicle weighing 12,000kg or more when these vehicles operate in excess of permitted maximum operating weights.
4.The applicable categories of goods vehicle are: 2 axle rigid and 3 axle rigid goods vehicles, and the same types of vehicle that draw trailers when such trailers weigh 4,000kg or more; as well as tractive units that draw semi-trailers consisting with any number of axles, or with two or more axles.