Parking charge notices

How to Complain or make Representation.

• Complaining to the local authority.
• The grounds for representation.
• The Notice to Owner (NtO)
• What is formal representation?
• Notices of Acceptance /Rejection/Appeal.

Complaining to the Adjudicator.

• Who are the Adjudicators?
• The grounds for appealing to the Adjudicator
• The appeal process
• What Happens Next?

Statutory Declarations

• About the Statutory Declaration.
• How to complete the Statutory Declaration.
• What happens next?
• Warrant of Execution

Miscellaneous

• The Road Traffic Act 1991.
• Contravention Codes
  

Notice to owner (NtO)

If you have either not paid your PCN, or, if the council rejects your informal challenge, they will send a Notice to Owner to the person or company they believe to be the owner of the vehicle. By now, the full penalty charge will be payable.

This notice is sent to the person believed to be the owner of the car. Under the Road Traffic Act 1991 it is the owner of the vehicle who is liable for any Penalty Charge Notices issued to it, irrespective of who the driver was. This is known as owner liability.
If you receive a Notice to Owner (NtO) you can use the form that accompanies it to make formal representations to the council. The Notice to Owner form itself details the legal grounds on which a formal representation may be made.

A Notice to owner should be served within 6 months  of the issue of the Penalty Charge Notice upon which it is based. After the expiry of this period, it is still open to the authority to show that the delay in service of the Notice to Owner was not unreasonable in all of the circumstances.

Please note that this 6 month period is applicable to London only....there is currently no time scale ordered for other parts of the country.