What the official record says
This Act is the Road User Charges Act . This Act comes into force on a date to be appointed by the Governor-General by Order in Council. One or more Orders in Council may be made appointing different dates for the commencement of different provisions and for different purposes. To the extent that it is not brought into force under , the rest of this Act comes into force on . The purpose of this Act is to— continue the road user charges system by imposing charges on RUC vehicles for their use of the roads that are in proportion to the costs that the vehicles generate: modernise and simplify the road user charges system: improve compliance with, and the recovery of, road user charges: establish a framework for the electronic management of road user charges. This Act replaces the Road User Ch