parking ticket over 12 months old.

toffeerevelsftw

I read somewhere that if a parking ticket is over 12 months old they are no longer allowed to chase you for it. Is this correct?

McKneff

If you have been fined by the police or the courts they can chase you forever.

If you have been 'fined' by a private company you are safe to ignore all correspondence from the moment you get the ticket. These are not 'fines' they dont have the authority to do this, only the courts and the councils have this clout.

Ignore anything they send you with confidence.

Orford

The Civil Enforcement of Parking Contraventions (England) General Regulations 2007

http://www.opsi.gov.uk/si/si2007/uksi_20073483_en_1

a reg 9 PCN musrt be served at the scene at the time of contravention

a reg 10 PCN can be served by post within 28 days starting with date of alleged contravention

4) Subject to paragraph (6), a regulation 10 penalty charge notice may not be served later than the expiration of the period of 28 days beginning with the date on which, according to a record produced by an approved device, or information given by a civil enforcement officer, the contravention to which the penalty charge notice relates occurred (in these Regulations called “the 28-day period”).

Howvwer para 6 allows for later service either where DVLA supply data late
or where a PCN was cancelled by adjudciation and a new PCN is to be served on someone else

Where the DLVA are asked with 14 days starting with date of contravention but dont respond
within the 28 days then there is a time limit of 6months after which a PCN cannot be served

There is however the overeaching issue of fairness (see PATAS davis v kensington)
which MAY mean that a delayed PCN legally served due to initial delay of DVLA is still invalid
(eg deliberate or incompetent further delay by councl)