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BPA -- IAS can anyome explain this

beamerguy
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Whilst looking through the BPA site, this came up

https://www.britishparking.co.uk/write/Documents/AOS/AOS_FEE_STRUCTURE_2017-18.pdf

We will also ask you to pay a contribution towards the set up and
running of the Independent Appeals Service (IAS).

Can anyone explain this
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  • Redx
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    they mean payment to run POPLA (their IAS)

    the fact that the IPC set up their IAS service is plagiarism and probably designed to confuse, just like the acronym PCN
  • Umkomaas
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    The Independent Appeals Service is quite different from the Independent Appeals Service.

    The BPA version of an Independent Appeals Service is Parking on Private Land Appeals (POPLA) while the IPC version of an Independent Appeals Service is the Independent Appeals Service.

    Obvious innit!
    Please note, we are not a legal advice forum. I personally don't get involved in critiquing court case Defences/Witness Statements, so unable to help on that front. Please don't ask. .

    I provide only my personal opinion, it is not a legal opinion, it is simply a personal one. I am not a lawyer.

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  • beamerguy
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    Redx wrote: »
    they mean payment to run POPLA (their IAS)

    the fact that the IPC set up their IAS service is plagiarism and probably designed to confuse, just like the acronym PCN

    Then why don't they say POPLA ? To an outsider, it looks like they finance the IAS

    I know that the BPA are not the smartest page in the book but don't they understand this
  • Redx
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    edited 23 January 2019 at 9:17PM
    popla are the people they use and awarded it to the Ombudsman Service this time but London Councils before that , but officially both systems are an IAS

    so the acronym IAS is correct (FOR NOW) and always was, not popla

    it may still be an IAS after the new parking bill becomes law, no matter who runs it


    I suppose the IPC could have chosen the OS too if they wanted to, plus they could have created their own name and acronym for their own service, so like popla but not the actual same name, but their own trademark name for example
  • beamerguy
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    Remember the song that said ...

    "Your daddy ain't your daddy but your daddy don't know"

    It would be plain stupidity for government to call their new
    appeals service the IAS .... everyone knows it as a scam
  • KeithP
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    beamerguy wrote: »
    Then why don't they say POPLA ?
    If they had done that they would not have been able to introduce ITAL. :D


    I'll leave you to look up what ITAL stands for. ;)
  • twhitehousescat
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    the BPA use Independent Appeals Service (IAS).because there is more than one

    confused?
  • Johno100
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    twhitehousescat wrote: »
    the BPA use Independent Appeals Service (IAS).because there is more than one

    confused?

    Then they should've said Independent Appeals Services if they intended there should be more than one, which we now of course have with the appearance of ITAL.
  • twhitehousescat
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    don't worry I heard that parking eye were going to confuse (or threaten to withhold monies) to the BPA and start their own independent appeal system next month
  • beamerguy
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    So when the new code of practice becomes law, where does
    ITAL fit in with the grand scheme of things
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