11Circumstances in which road user charges payable

11 Circumstances in which road user charges payable

11 Circumstances in which road user charges payable

(1) A road user charge is payable for each kilometre for which a relevant zero or low emissions vehicle travels on a public place.

(2) To avoid doubt, a road user charge is not payable for travel by a relevant zero or low emissions vehicle on private land.

(3) For the purposes of subsection (1), the road user charge is payable in relation to each kilometre for which a relevant zero or low emissions vehicle travels regardless of whether the land on which it travels—

(a) is a road or another place, or

(b) is in New South Wales or another State or Territory.

(4) The regulations may provide that kilometres travelled on the following are not kilometres for which a road user charge is payable—

(a) a specified road or specified place,

(b) a type of road or a type of place.

(5) In this section—

public place includes—

(a) a road, or road related area, within the meaning of the Road Transport Act 2013, and

(b) another place—

(i) the public is entitled to use, is open to members of the public or is used by the public, whether or not on payment of money, or

(ii) the occupier of which allows, whether or not on payment of money, members of the public to enter.