News on the "5 minute rule"

kryten3000

Coupon-mad said:

New Joint Code version dated today, has added an extra 'Exempt vehicles clause' to F1:

https://www.britishparking.co.uk/write/Documents/AOS/Sector Code Templates/sectorsingleCodeofPracticeVersion1.1130225.pdf

"The Panel has created a new category of Exempt Vehicle in Annex F.1. The category relates to vehicles parked on land managed by fixed camera technology. This change puts in place protection to ensure that where a genuine user is unable to make prompt payment when entering a pay on entry car park they do not receive a parking charge."

F.1. j) a vehicle parked in a car park managed by fixed camera technology (ANPR and/or CCTV) for which payment has been made for the full period of parking prior to the vehicle leaving the car park. NOTE: This exempt circumstance only relates to the timing of making payment. It does not exempt a motorist from parking charges which have been issued for other contraventions such as; · Partial or under payment for the time parked, · Where the driver has paid the tariff but made a major keying error when registering their vehicle, · Parking in a bay where the vehicle was not permitted to park (this list is not exhaustive)

Still no word on who is on "the panel", the only information I have seen is that Simon Williams of the RAC was approached but declined to participate.

Meanwhile WillH is still repeating the lie that this rule was taken from the withdrawn code.