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Council's website refers to penalty charge as 'parking FINE' - is this ticket valid?
Of course it is illegal to refer to a penalty charge as an catual parking fine, because technically it's not a fine. The ticket itself is worded correctly (the council had to change their illegally worded tickets a while back).
But on the local council's website, it states:
"Pay your parking fine online. you will need your PCN number and a valid email address to complete online."
Their automated telephone payment line also refers to it as a "fine". So given that they are asking me to pay a fine when in fact it isn't, does this render the charge invalid?
Re: Council's website refers to penalty charge as 'parking FINE' - is this ticket val
I would imagine it's the wording on the pcn that counts in law and that however it is described on a website has no bearing. You could ask them to change it on the basis it could be misleading, but I don't see that it would make a pcn invalid
Re: Council's website refers to penalty charge as 'parking FINE' - is this ticket val
That's the answer I expected to be honest, however they are basically asking (or 'inviting') me to pay a fine and I haven't been fined. In this sense I feel the wording on their website and indeed their phone lines mean that they are referring to this as a fine and therefore implying I have to pay a fine when I don't because it isn't a fine.
I only mouth my opinion, please look elsewhere for sensible advice!
Re: Council's website refers to penalty charge as 'parking FINE' - is this ticket val
As it happens my own Coucil website mentions fines too in their FAQ's as in 'How do I pay my fine ' and 'What happens if I don't pay my fine', but I don't imagine an adjudicator or a judge would attach any weight to that.
Council's website refers to penalty charge as 'parking FINE' - is this ticket valid?
, because technically it's not a fine. The ticket itself is worded correctly (the council had to change their illegally worded tickets a while back).
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