HC Deb 10 May 2000 vol 349 cc892-3

Amendments made: No. 233, in page 187, line 19, leave out from "a" to "the" in line 9 on page 188 and insert— 'relevant scheme and a financial year, means the amount (if any) by which—

  1. (a) the amounts received under or in connection with the scheme which are attributable to the financial year, exceed
  2. (b) the expenses incurred for or in connection with the scheme which are so attributable.

(2) For the purposes of this Schedule—

  1. (a) the amounts received under or in connection with a relevant scheme, and
  2. (b) the expenses incurred for or in connection with a relevant scheme,
and the extent to which they are attributable to any financial year, shall be determined in accordance with regulations made by the appropriate national authority.

(3) Regulations under sub-paragraph (2) may, in particular, provide that—

  1. (a) any such costs of constructing, improving or maintaining roads in respect of which charges are imposed by trunk road charging schemes, and any such costs of managing traffic on those roads, as are specified by or determined in accordance with the regulations, or
  2. (b) any such payments made for or in respect of the construction, improvement or maintenance of those roads, or the management of traffic on them, as are so specified or determined,
are to be regarded, to the extent so specified or determined, as expenses incurred for or in connection with the trunk road charging schemes.

(4) Where a trunk road charging scheme is made by virtue of section 145(2)(b), the relevant authority and the local traffic authority which requested the making of the scheme (or Transport for London, if it did) may agree that—

  1. (a) the expenses incurred for or in connection with the trunk road charging scheme shall be taken to include specified expenses incurred for or in connection with the charging scheme in connection with which the trunk road charging scheme was requested, and
  2. (b) the expenses incurred for or in connection with that other charging scheme shall be taken to include specified expenses incurred for or in connection with'.

No. 234, in page 188, line 31, leave out from beginning to "be" in line 42 and insert— '5. Regulations made by the appropriate national authority may make provision for—

  1. (a) the keeping of accounts relating to trunk road charging schemes, and
  2. (b) the preparation and publication of statements of such accounts.

6.—(1) An account relating to a relevant scheme which is not a trunk road charging scheme shall be kept for each financial year by the relevant authority or jointly by the relevant authorities.

(2) A statement of every such account shall be prepared for each financial year by the relevant authority or authorities and published in the annual accounts of the relevant authority, or of each of the relevant authorities, for the financial year.

(3) Regulations made by the appropriate national authority may make—

  1. (a) further provision relating to accounts required to be kept under this paragraph (including provision requiring or allowing the keeping of consolidated accounts relating to more than one relevant scheme), and
  2. (b) further provision relating to the preparation and publication of statements of such accounts.

6A. At the end of each financial year any deficit in an account required to be kept under paragraph 6 shall'.

No. 235, in page 191, line 42, leave out sub-paragraph (6).—[Mr. Robert Ainsworth.]

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