Parking Fine Incorrectly Completed

philsm

My wife has received a "Civil Penalty Charge Notice" for expiring her parking ticket. This was issued by St Marks Shopping Centre in Lincoln.
The car was overdue by 28 minutes so as such she did expire her ticket.

The ticket is in two halves (top has vehicle date time etc, the bottom has the tick boxes for the offence committed and detached to serve as the payment slip).
They are demanding £50 for the offence within 14 days rising to £80 thereafter.
I have noticed the person issuing the ticket has entered the Amount Paid in the ticket Expiry Time box and the Expiry Time in the Amount Paid box.
Does this make the ticket invalid ?
Thanks for any help.

Coupon-mad

None of that matters if it's a private parking notice.

If so then it's not a fine or a penalty so you should completely ignore it - and ignore any threatening letters and referrals to 'debt collectors' that might follow. Read this thread and relax, DO NOT contact the issuer, not even to appeal:

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=1331507

Also this thread seems to be about a ticket similar to yours (read the answers...):

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?p=24424643

HTH. Who was it issued by, just to be certain that it was a private firm not the Council which would be different?

philsm

It was issued by St Marks Shopping Centre (registered in England no 3002186) and doesn't refer to any council or other organisations.

Coupon-mad

Then you can safely ignore it, honestly. It is not a penalty charge nor an offence in law. :T

Get a good night's sleep and then when you read the threads I have linked above, in the morning, you will see why I replied as I did.

Someone in my family also got a private car park ticket not so long ago and it was the advice on this site that made us realise these tickets are unenforceable. I hope the message gets spread far and wide.

Martin Lewis is now getting the advice to ignore such tickets to a wider audience; this very information was emailed to over 100,000 people a couple of weeks ago and the advice to IGNORE is endorsed by MSE (not just by people like me chatting on the forum).

BTW I notice that a petition has been mentioned on the Parking Tickets Discussion thread, asking people to sign to ask the Prime Minister to outlaw the DVLA giving out private data of motorists' details to private firms (ticketers and clampers and all those scammers).

Thanks to hairy_g (please all click thanks on post no 434 on the first link above):

QUOTE
'Perhaps if more people sign this, http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/DVLA-Data/
something may get done. Don't build your hopes up though.'

QUOTE

Please all sign the petition!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

bargepole

philsm wrote: »

My wife has received a "Civil Penalty Charge Notice" for expiring her parking ticket. ... makes the ticket invalid !!!

Everything else is irrelevant. Ignore all correspondence, don't pay them a penny.

Crabman

Coupon-mad wrote: »

Martin Lewis is now getting the advice to ignore such tickets to a wider audience; this very information was emailed to over 100,000 people a couple of weeks ago

[pedantic mode on]

Actually it was emailed to nearly 4 million people :T

Around 100,000 read the article on the first day alone :cool:

Millions listened to Martin on Radio 2 on Friday and got a laugh when Perky made a fool of himself again

[pedantic mode off]

steve3502

If they are unable to enforce these Civil Penalty Charge Notice's then is there any need to purchase a ticket?

peter_the_piper

Morally yes, and I don't know of anyone (sensible) on here who would say otherwise.

steve3502

I didn't mean I wouldn't buy one, I was just curious on the legal stance. I have never received a parking ticket before and wouldn't wish to receive one.