Part 2: Electric Vehicles: Charging Chapter 2: Policy background Section 12: Duty to consider making regulations under Section 11 on request by elected mayor
Section 12 provides elected mayors (the Mayor of London and Mayors of combined authorities) with the power to ask the Secretary of State for Transport to make regulations under Section 11. The power would be limited to large fuel retailers in the area within their authority. Mayors would be required to consult on such proposals, and notify the Secretary of State of the intent for regulations to be made, who must then consider whether to make such regulations. If the Secretary of State decided not to make such regulations, the Secretary of State would be required to notify the mayor of the reasons for this. The Secretary of State would not be obliged to consider a request to make regulations unless ‘large fuel retailer’ had already been defined in regulations.