Majority of Windscreen tickets are against guidelines?

Hellohellohellohello

Just wondered whether this is a point worth mentioning by people appealing...
I have paid private parking appeals Ltd. today to write an appeal for me but haven't heard back yet, and had previously paid parking appeals service ltd. who have now quit trading -_-

20.5c from the BPA guidelines states: “You should not use wording on your plastic PCN envelopes which implies that you are acting under statutory authority. For example phrases such as ‘It is an offence to remove …..’, should be avoided.”

The majority of stickers used say: "It is an offence for any person other than the driver to remove this notice."

Is it actually an offence?

The IPC guidelines aren't specific in terms of this but say in 11.1: "You must not state or imply that you have any government or regulatory powers if this is not the case"

Wouldn't these statements be implying this?

Or is there really a law against removing these invoices from windscreens?

Thanks

Fergie76

I know that these appeal companies involve or have involved people on these forums, but there is no need to pay anyone to do it for you.

As long has you have a basic grasp of English, which is difficult for me being Scottish , you can do this yourself. All the help you need is in the newbie thread.

trisontana

I took this up with the BPA ltd. a couple of years ago and they stated that the "offence" would be theft. I then asked if that applies to any bits of paper left on a car, including advertising flyers. They said yes. I further asked them how many cases had gone to court over this heinous crime. Answer came there none.

Marktheshark

Guidelines mean nothing.

Hellohellohellohello

Fergie76 wrote: »

I know that these appeal companies involve or have involved people on these forums, but there is no need to pay anyone to do it for you.

As long has you have a basic grasp of English, which is difficult for me being Scottish , you can do this yourself. All the help you need is in the newbie thread.

aha, thanks, I tried the initial appeal myself and failed, and also I just don't have the time to formulate the appeal myself at the moment, as I'm busy with exams at uni.

shortchanged_2

Well I wouldn't press charges against someone if they decided to take a private parking invoice off my car.

Hellohellohellohello

trisontana wrote: »

I took this up with the BPA ltd. a couple of years ago and they stated that the "offence" would be theft. I then asked if that applies to any bits of paper left on a car, including advertising flyers. They said yes. I further asked them how many cases had gone to court over this heinous crime. Answer came there none.

Thats interesting, I'm sure thats it and they're not trying to make them look like penalty charges at all...

Hellohellohellohello

Marktheshark wrote: »

Guidelines mean nothing.

Why's that? So if the company doesn't follow guidelines, the BPA/IPC (by this i mean popla/Ias of course) don't have to take any notice of this when dealing with an appeal?

Umkomaas

Hellohellohellohello wrote: »

Why's that? So if the company doesn't follow guidelines, the BPA/IPC don't have to take any notice of this when dealing with an appeal?

BPA/IPC don't deal with appeals.

If you want to know what notice is taken of guidelines in private parking - stick around a while.