Parking ticket received before 1 October 2012

tim_batchy

Hi all,

I am hoping you can help me with this little predicament. I received a parking ticket on 23 September by a private company who are now demanding payment. The thing is that I was not driving that day.

I am aware that the rules on parking tickets changed on 1 October, but prior to that date, a response could be submitted to the parking company stating that I wasn't the driver and I didn't have to tell the company who was driving.

I am therefore not sure which rules apply to me. The old rules because my ticket was received prior to 1 October? Or the new rules because they have now started? I don't want to dob the driver in, but obviously don't want to pay the fine either!

I have searched the internet for an answer but cannot find anything conclusive.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

Tim

Coupon-mad

We've been constantly asked several times every day about the new law (Protection of Freedoms Act if you want to search for other threads). It has been discussed to death TBH and you could have just searched the forum - but we always reply because it's important that people know that fake PCNs have not suddenly become magically enforceable!

So here's the same old summary once again :



Whenever the incident occurred, the registered keeper doesn't 'have to' do anything at all.

These fake PCNs are as unenforceable as they ever were - it's just that for incidents after 1st October, these scam firms are now able to aim their threatograms at the registered keeper if they are not informed who the driver was.

Big deal...the keeper can still make paper aeroplanes out of them as we always did, just as shown by Tim Cary, the expert Solicitor in this Watchdog clip!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAIcdi9niHA


A SUMMARY:

As far as private parking ticket scams are concerned, for a vehicle where you or family are the registered keeper*:


Any fake PCN issued for an incident up until 30th Sept 2012 like yours = IGNORE IT.


Any fake PCN issued for an incident from 1st October 2012 onwards:

- if you were parked in Scotland or NI = IGNORE IT.

- if your 'ticket' is from a firm who are NOT members of the BPA AOS, or are one of five AOS members currently banned from getting data = IGNORE IT.

- if your 'ticket' is from a non-banned by the DVLA!! AOS member in England/Wales, there are 2 choices:

a) IGNORE IT, as ever, playing snap with the threatograms that match our sticky thread 'PPC letter chains' (near the top of this parking forum),

or

b) Appeal it with help from here in how to word it, and insist on a referral to the POPLA appeals service if it's not cancelled. Costs the PPC £32 plus, costs you nothing, it's not binding on you but it is binding on the PPC. If you do not win your appeal then revert to ignore mode.



Finally, if anyone gets any fake PCN anywhere in the UK in a retail, cinema, fast food or Supermarket car park then even if you choose to ignore the scammers then COMPLAIN IN WRITING to the CEO of the company on site if you were a customer. Do not appeal to them, complain about this protection racket against their paying ex-customers.

HTH





* it is different for hire/lease/company cars as you could find the fake PCN paid for you! Here is a thread about what to do (whether AOS scheme member or not, you need to appeal to hook the PPC in your direction).