Received within 14 days or allow postage

stebiz

Does a PCN have to be received within 14 days or can they allow for postage? Mine was issued on day 14 so clearly could not arrive in time.

KeithP

No a PCN does not have to be received within fourteen days.

In fact the DVLA allow the PPC to seek keeper details for up to six months following the event, and I believe the British Parking Association allow their Approved Operator Scheme members up to seven months following the event to send a PCN out.


Would you like to put your question in some sort of context?

The_Deep

This is an entirely unregulated industry which is scamming the public with inflated claims for minor breaches of alleged contracts for alleged parking offences, aided and abetted by a handful of low-rent solicitors. Is has been suggested by an MP that some of these companies may have connections to organised crime.

Parking Eye, CPM, Smart, (especially Smart}, and others have already been named and shamed in the House of Commons as have Gladstones Solicitors, and BW Legal, (these two law firms take hundreds of these cases to court each week), hospital car parks and residential complex tickets have been especially mentioned. They lose most of them, and have been reported to the regulatory authority by an M.P. for unprofessional conduct

The problem become so widespread that MPs agreed to enact a Bill to regulate these scammers. Hopefully, this will become law by Easter .

Fruitcake

Have you read the sticky thread for NEWBIES yet that was just underneath where you clicked on the button? This will answer this and many more questions you may have about the unregulated parking scam.

stebiz

Fruitcake wrote: »

Have you read the sticky thread for NEWBIES yet that was just underneath where you clicked on the button? This will answer this and many more questions you may have about the unregulated parking scam.

Yes I did see this but wanted clarification

If they are a firm which alleges 'keeper liability' under the POFA 2012 (which they don't have to!) the a postal PCN must arrive by day 14 if there was no windscreen ticket.

Coupon-mad

It must be deemed delivered by day 15 if you are counting the parking event as day one, as is the case for Council PCNs. Oddly, the POFA says something different than that.

You can see this in Sch 4 para 9, that 'day 1' is the day AFTER the parking, then count on 14 days.

You should arrive at the same day of the week as the parking event. That is the day the NTK must be deemed delivered by and if the PCN was dated on day 14 then that is impossible. Weekends help, as a NTK letter cannot be deemed delivered on a Saturday, Sunday or Bank Holiday.

stebiz

Coupon-mad wrote: »

It must be deemed delivered by day 15 if you are counting the parking event as day one, as is the case for Council PCNs. Oddly, the POFA says something different than that.

You can see this in Sch 4 para 9, that 'day 1' is the day AFTER the parking, then count on 14 days.

You should arrive at the same day of the week as the parking event. That is the day the NTK must be deemed delivered by and if the PCN was dated on day 14 then that is impossible. Weekends help, as a NTK letter cannot be deemed delivered on a Saturday, Sunday or Bank Holiday.

Thanks for that