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I was pictured parked where I apparently shouldnt have been in East Ham.
This was around the 24 th june.
My question is, is there a time limit for these tickets to be sent out as mine was not received until the 21st july nearly a month later..
Does it make any difference that is was parked in a no loading area but wasnt actually loading anyway so no contravention occurred Only kidding.
I am sure I have read on other threads that CCTV tickets should be issued in 14 or 21 days (both of which have passed) but I am sure someone will be along with the facts if you are patient.
the presumed date of service is two days after posting (note date of posting not printing or date of going into an out tray in a council office).
se S.I. 2007 No. 3483 section 10 in this instance.
Penalty charge notices — service by post
10.—(1) An enforcement authority may serve a penalty charge notice by post where—
(a) on the basis of a record produced by an approved device, the authority has reason to
believe that a penalty charge is payable with respect to a vehicle which is stationary in a
civil enforcement area;
(b) a civil enforcement officer attempted to serve a penalty charge notice in accordance with
regulation 9 but was prevented from doing so by some person; or
(c) a civil enforcement officer had begun to prepare a penalty charge notice for service in
accordance with regulation 9, but the vehicle concerned was driven away from the place
in which it was stationary before the civil enforcement officer had finished preparing the
penalty charge notice or had served it in accordance with regulation 9,
and references in these Regulations to a “regulation 10 penalty charge notice” are to a penalty
charge notice served by virtue of this paragraph.
(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1)(c), a civil enforcement officer who observes conduct
which appears to constitute a parking contravention shall not thereby be taken to have begun to
prepare a penalty charge notice.
(3) A regulation 10 penalty charge notice shall be served on the person appearing to the
enforcement authority to be the owner of the vehicle involved in the contravention in consequence
of which the penalty charge is payable.
(4) Subject to paragraph (6), a regulation 10 penalty charge notice may not be served later than
the expiration of the period of 28 days beginning with the date on which, according to a record
produced by an approved device, or information given by a civil enforcement officer, the
contravention to which the penalty charge notice relates occurred (in these Regulations called “the
28-day period”).
(5) Paragraph (6) applies where—
(a) within 14 days of the appropriate date the enforcement authority has requested the
Secretary of State to supply the relevant particulars in respect of the vehicle involved in
the contravention and those particulars have not been supplied before the expiration of the
28-day period;
(b) an earlier regulation 10 penalty charge notice relating to the same contravention has been
cancelled under regulation 23(5)(c); or
(c) an earlier regulation 10 penalty charge notice relating to the same contravention has been
cancelled under regulation 5 of the Representations and Appeals Regulations.
(6) Where this paragraph applies, notwithstanding the expiration of the 28-day period, an
enforcement authority shall continue to be entitled to serve a regulation 10 penalty charge
notice—
(a) in a case falling within paragraph (5)(a), for a period of six months beginning with the
appropriate date; or
(b) in a case falling within paragraph (5)(b) or (c), for a period of 4 weeks beginning with the
appropriate date.
(7) In this regulation—
(a) “the appropriate date” means—
(i) in a case falling within paragraph (5)(a), the date referred to in paragraph (4);
(ii) in a case falling within paragraph (5)(b), the date on which the district judge serves
notice in accordance with regulation 23(5)(d); or
(iii) in a case falling within paragraph (5)(c) the date on which the previous regulation 10
penalty charge notice was cancelled; and
(b) “relevant particulars” means particulars relating to the identity of the keeper of the
vehicle contained in the register of mechanically propelled vehicles maintained by the
Secretary of State under the Vehicle Excise and Registration Act 1994.