Commentary Part 6: Local and London charging schemes Section 118: Information: England and Wales
285.Subsections (1) to (5) amend section 194 of the TA 2000.
286.Section 194(1) currently allows the disclosure of information to charging authorities only in relation to existing schemes. The amendment to section 194(1) which is made by subsection (2) allows information obtained by Ministers, Government Departments, Welsh Ministers or a local authority also to be disclosed to a local traffic authority or ITA in relation to a proposed charging scheme. Subsection (3) makes a corresponding amendment to the power in section 194(2), enabling a local traffic authority or ITA to use in relation to a proposed charging scheme information it has obtained from its exercise of other functions.
287.Subsection (5) allows the Secretary of State or the Welsh Ministers to charge a reasonable fee for supplying information under section 194 of the TA 2000. Where the traffic authority or ITA has asked the Secretary of State to obtain information from registration authorities overseas, with a view to disclosing that information under subsections (1) and (3), the Secretary of State may charge a reasonable fee for obtaining that information or for seeking to obtain it.
288.Subsections (6) to (9) make equivalent provision in paragraph 34A of Schedule 23 to the GLA Act 1999.