Parking Charge Notice - Help on technicality please

Crumpleface

Hi,

Please accept my apologies if you have seen this before but I have tried searching and cannot quite find the exact info I am after.

I received a Parking Charge Notice and the Notice to Keeper was provided in the form of a letter showing my entry and exit time via a photo from number plate recognition - the site is a retail complex and is unmanned so tickets are not issued on the vehicle.

As declared in the PCN / NTK the contravention occurred on: 30/06/17, and the issue date (posted): 09/08/17.

I first thought it was a long time past the event to send me a PCN so decided to check what the legal time frame required for issuing PCN/NTK and cannot find anything that categorically states the legal requirement, although from all the advice I have found it seems the amount of time that notification needs to have taken place seems to range between 14 days or 28 days - if either of these are correct I can claim they have not observed this as it's over both of those times.

I am hoping someone can tell me the actual timeframe and if I have a case on this technicality, and point me in the direction of the law/act/guideline so that I may quote it when responding.

Thanks in advance for any help.

waamo

Have you read the thread that asks Newbies to read it first? It's at the top of this forum. I suspect if you read it you will find the answers to all those questions.

pogofish

Crumpleface wrote: »

Hi,

Please accept my apologies if you have seen this before but I have tried searching and cannot quite find the exact info I am after.

This is all covered in the Newbies Sticky - Which you need to read carefully before doing anything else. Especially before contacting a PPC - You need to word things carefully to avoid identifying yourself as the driver.

Crumpleface

Yep I read it, hence my question, if you can find please point me to it.

Crumpleface

It does not specify a legal requirement that can be quoted which is what I am looking for.
I have read it and if I have missed it it would be more helpful for people to point me to it rather than try to make me feel like an idiot "newbie"? Don't you think?

waamo

Here you go. The Protection of Freedom Act 2012. This specifies the timescales for a Notice to Keeper to be valid.
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2012/9/contents/enacted

nosferatu1001

...and was really clearly referenced in the newbies thread

There is only a stat. time limit for issuing a NtK IF they want to hold the keeper liable under POFA
Para 8 sets out 29-56 days
Para 9 sets out 14 days

Fruitcake

Crumpleface wrote: »

Yep I read it, hence my question, if you can find please point me to it.

Crumpleface wrote: »

It does not specify a legal requirement that can be quoted which is what I am looking for.
I have read it and if I have missed it it would be more helpful for people to point me to it rather than try to make me feel like an idiot "newbie"? Don't you think?

The information you are asking about is given in post 1 of the NEWBIES in the section after the BPA blue template, and before the section about the second stage appeal.

Remember that the date of the alleged event is day zero.

Crumpleface

Thank you, that is exactly what I was looking for.