Road User Charges (Exemption Period for Heavy Electric RUC Vehicles) Order 2017
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Road User Charges (Exemption Period for Heavy Electric RUC Vehicles) Order 2017
(LI 2017/172)
Road User Charges (Exemption Period for Heavy Electric RUC Vehicles) Order 2017: revoked, on 1 January 2026, by regulation 5 of the Road User Charges (Exemption Period for Heavy Electric RUC Vehicles) Order 2025 (SL 2025/232).
Patsy Reddy, Governor-General
Order in Council
At Wellington this 31st day of July 2017
Present:
Her 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.
This order is made under section 37A of the Road User Charges Act 2012—
(a)
on the advice and with the consent of the Executive Council; and
(b)
on the recommendation of the Minister of Transport made in accordance with section 37A(2) of that Act.
Order
1 Title
This order is the Road User Charges (Exemption Period for Heavy Electric RUC Vehicles) Order 2017.
2 Commencement
This order comes into force on 1 September 2017.
3 Exemption period for heavy electric RUC vehicles
For the purposes of section 37A of the Road User Charges Act 2012, the period during which road user charges are not payable in respect of heavy electric RUC vehicles is the period—
(a)
beginning on 1 September 2017; and
(b)
ending with the close of 31 December 2025.
Michael Webster,
Clerk of the Executive Council.
Explanatory note
This note is not part of the order, but is intended to indicate its general effect.
This order, which comes into force on 1 September 2017, specifies the period during which road user charges are not payable under the Road User Charges Act 2012 in respect of heavy electric RUC vehicles as the period beginning on 1 September 2017 and ending with the close of 31 December 2025.
Regulatory impact statement
The Ministry of Transport produced a regulatory impact statement in March 2016 to help inform the decisions taken by the Government relating to the contents of this instrument.
A copy of this regulatory impact statement can be found at—
www.transport.govt.nz/assets/Uploads/Our-Work/Documents/EV-RUC-RIS-2016.pdf
Date of notification in Gazette: 3 August 2017.
Notes
1 General
This is a consolidation of the Road User Charges (Exemption Period for Heavy Electric RUC Vehicles) Order 2017 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 Heavy Electric RUC Vehicles) Order 2025 (SL 2025/232): clause 5
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Road User Charges (Exemption Period for Heavy Electric RUC Vehicles) Order 2017
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