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colonel c said:
Bugger!!
Got my second ever parking ticket last week. Overstayed my welcome at an on street parking bay. The thing is the ticket describes my car a 'colour Black'. It is actually Green. So for the sake of £30 should I pay up or do a Clarkson and try to get off on a technicality?
Do it properly. Got my second ever parking ticket last week. Overstayed my welcome at an on street parking bay. The thing is the ticket describes my car a 'colour Black'. It is actually Green. So for the sake of £30 should I pay up or do a Clarkson and try to get off on a technicality?
Have the car resprayed in white.
Change your name.
Have a gender reassignment.
With a bit of luck you will save £30.
If you do not accept by paying then LA will send a Notice to Owner which is the start of the appeals process.
Schedule 6 RTA 1991 A notice to owner MUST state—
(a) the amount of the penalty charge payable;
(b) the grounds on which the parking attendant who issued the penalty charge notice believed that a penalty charge was payable with respect to the vehicle;
(c) that the penalty charge must be paid before the end of the period of 28 days beginning with the date on which the notice to owner is served;
(d) that failure to pay the penalty charge may lead to an increased charge being payable;
(e) the amount of that increased charge;
(f) that the person on whom the notice is served (“the recipient”
may be entitled to make representations under paragraph 2 below; and
(g) the effect of paragraph 5 below.
Nowhere is listed that the colour is essential feature but the vehicle must identified (b) - which is by VRM and make.
IMHO get the wallet out and pay early at the reduced rate as I cannot see you winning with just the colour wrong.
dvd
Schedule 6 RTA 1991 A notice to owner MUST state—
(a) the amount of the penalty charge payable;
(b) the grounds on which the parking attendant who issued the penalty charge notice believed that a penalty charge was payable with respect to the vehicle;
(c) that the penalty charge must be paid before the end of the period of 28 days beginning with the date on which the notice to owner is served;
(d) that failure to pay the penalty charge may lead to an increased charge being payable;
(e) the amount of that increased charge;
(f) that the person on whom the notice is served (“the recipient”
may be entitled to make representations under paragraph 2 below; and (g) the effect of paragraph 5 below.
Nowhere is listed that the colour is essential feature but the vehicle must identified (b) - which is by VRM and make.
IMHO get the wallet out and pay early at the reduced rate as I cannot see you winning with just the colour wrong.
dvd
Are the bay markings correct?
http://web.mac.com/rmbscarb/iWeb/rmbconsulting/Mak...
If they're not, then the bay is unenforceable, and I wouldn't pay.
http://web.mac.com/rmbscarb/iWeb/rmbconsulting/Mak...
If they're not, then the bay is unenforceable, and I wouldn't pay.
No don't pay it.
They have got the description wrong and thus cannot prove it was your vehicle.
Never paid a parking ticket yet, just another fecking tax as far as i am concerned.
I got a letter through the post last year from some company claiming my car was parked illegally at some motorway sevices, and i had 14 days to pay the £80 fine!!
I wrote to them asked to prove it through CCTV or other evidence and of cause they couldn't, so polightly told them to f@ck off and have heard nothing since. No what ever you do don't pay it, challenge the system.
They have got the description wrong and thus cannot prove it was your vehicle.
Never paid a parking ticket yet, just another fecking tax as far as i am concerned.
I got a letter through the post last year from some company claiming my car was parked illegally at some motorway sevices, and i had 14 days to pay the £80 fine!!
I wrote to them asked to prove it through CCTV or other evidence and of cause they couldn't, so polightly told them to f@ck off and have heard nothing since. No what ever you do don't pay it, challenge the system.
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