PCN attached to Windscreen

JustRaider

Hi Coupon-mad,

Thanks for your excellent advice. You've provided a solution
to the concern I had. If the PPC doesn't bother sending a
'NTK' letter, after 28 days, then they could just say
"You've lost your chance for appeal". Then they wouldn't
send a valid code to start a POPLA appeal.

If an appeal letter is sent to the PPC, before the 28 days
of the pcn issue date, does the following rule
(BPA AOS Code of Practice B.22.8) still apply :

"PPC should send an acknowledgement within 14 days and
a comprehensive reply within 35 days."

Thank you,
JustRaider

Coupon-mad

JustRaider wrote: »

Hi Coupon-mad,

Thanks for your excellent advice. You've provided a solution
to the concern I had. If the PPC doesn't bother sending a
'NTK' letter, after 28 days, then they could just say
"You've lost your chance for appeal". Then they wouldn't
send a valid code to start a POPLA appeal.

SIP do exactly that - and I thought it was time we spared newbies the hassle now we have spent a whole year since POFA2012 learning who does what, which PPCs play which 'game'! We know a lot about each PPC and SIP are perfectly beatable of course, especially by a keeper!

JustRaider wrote: »

If an appeal letter is sent to the PPC, before the 28 days
of the pcn issue date, does the following rule
(BPA AOS Code of Practice B.22.8) still apply :

"PPC should send an acknowledgement within 14 days and
a comprehensive reply within 35 days."

Thank you,
JustRaider

Yes that deadline still applies because it's in the BPA CoP which even non-POFA ticketers have to comply with.

We haven't tried an earlier keeper appeal much before; but I don't think there's any advantage in waiting for a NTK we know SIP do not have in their repertoire! My best guess is that SIP (who do read this forum, by the way, we know) will try to pretend you have to name the driver and you might have to prod them again for the POPLA code but you'll have done what you need to do and could report them to the BPA if they won't cough up the code.

Keep us updated!