Road User Charges (Exemption Period for Light Electric RUC Vehicles) Order 2012

Version as at 10 December 2021

Coat of Arms of New Zealand

Road User Charges (Exemption Period for Light Electric RUC Vehicles) Order 2012

(SR 2012/140)

Jerry Mateparae, Governor-General

Order in Council

At Wellington this 11th day of June 2012

Present:
His Excellency the Governor-General in Council

Note

The Parliamentary Counsel Office has made editorial and format changes to this version using the powers under subpart 2 of Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019.

Note 4 at the end of this version provides a list of the amendments included in it.

This order is administered by the Ministry of Transport.

Pursuant to section 37 of the Road User Charges Act 2012, His Excellency the Governor-General, acting on the advice and with the consent of the Executive Council, makes the following order.

Order

1 Title

This order is the Road User Charges (Exemption Period for Light Electric RUC Vehicles) Order 2012.

2 Commencement

This order comes into force on 1 August 2012.

3 Interpretation

In this order, Act means the Road User Charges Act 2012.

4 Exemption period for light electric RUC vehicles

For the purposes of section 37 of the Act, the period during which road user charges are not payable in respect of light electric RUC vehicles is the period—

(a)

beginning on the commencement of this order; and

(b)

ending with the close of 31 March 2024.

Clause 4(b): amended, on 10 December 2021, by clause 4 of the Road User Charges (Exemption Period for Light Electric RUC Vehicles) Amendment Order 2021 (LI 2021/304).

Michael Webster,
for Clerk of the Executive Council.

Issued under the authority of the Legislation Act 2019.

Date of notification in Gazette: 14 June 2012.

Notes
1 General

This is a consolidation of the Road User Charges (Exemption Period for Light Electric RUC Vehicles) Order 2012 that incorporates the amendments made to the legislation so that it shows the law as at its stated date.

2 Legal status

A consolidation is taken to correctly state, as at its stated date, the law enacted or made by the legislation consolidated and by the amendments. This presumption applies unless the contrary is shown.

Section 78 of the Legislation Act 2019 provides that this consolidation, published as an electronic version, is an official version. A printed version of legislation that is produced directly from this official electronic version is also an official version.

3 Editorial and format changes

The Parliamentary Counsel Office makes editorial and format changes to consolidations using the powers under subpart 2 of Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019. See also PCO editorial conventions for consolidations.

4 Amendments incorporated in this consolidation

Road User Charges (Exemption Period for Light Electric RUC Vehicles) Amendment Order 2021 (LI 2021/304)