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Date of offence 7/11/22
First learnt of offence 2/8/23 from the linked bailiff letter.

Between October 22 and Janurary 23 i was in the process of selling my house in Hampshire, and buying/ moving to a new address in Aberdeenshire, whilst living with family in Essex due to mobility issues.
New house purchased October 22. Drivers licence was re issued with new address by DVLA 11/11/23.
6/1122- 10/11/22 i attended the new property to open the door for the moving men to place my belongings in the house.
I then returned to Essex where i was assaulted and did not move to Aberdeenshire permanently until 10/1/2023 after buying an automatic car to enable me to drive and the hospital had okayed me to do so.
V5 of old car (car which is on the PCN) was within moving boxes at my new address between November22 until Janurary 2023.
I was unable to change the address on the v5 between november and Janurary due to not having access to the v5 (600miles away) at the time.
The old car was sold in essex 18th Janurary 2023 after moving into the new house, and sending the v5 to family to sell on my behalf.

I recall driving through the area at the time as i was lost, but do not remember seeing any signs that stated what time the bus gate was in effect. Having never seen a bus gate before, i did not know what it was or how it worked, yet could see parked cars either side of it, and cars driving in the street ahead, so knew the entire street was not for buses or pedestrians only.
Googlemaps of 2023 and 2022 confirms the placement of temporary signs for the gate, right next to the permanent signage, yet one or more of these temporary signs seem to be missing or laying on the ground invisible, depending on the dates chosen.
I surmise that had i of seen these signs i would have read them and understood. It is likely the signs were missing on that day, or laying on the ground given the area is a student thoroughfare.

Either way, i do not want a ccj for a pcn i knew nothing of for 9 months. If someone thinks I can sort this out, please reply

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Hi, thanks for the reply and your detailed response.

Im not exactly thrilled to have to pay £130 for what probably would have been a much lower penalty months ago, but am willing to pay it.
It is more important that i do not get a ccj, and although ccjs are apparently called something else in scotland i really dont want one on my credit file or have to declare one to any creditors or insurers in the future.
That said I am aware people play fast and loose with wordings of things such as private car park tickets, but am oblivious to how the law up here works in that regard as have onpy just moved here and found out!

I can only say that is what the letter i received states. That a charge certificate is the equivalent of a court decree has been obtained to collect the monies owed.

Are you saying they are playing fast and loose with terminology to scare me into paying faster, just as private car parking companies do and this has yet to occur?

If there is nothing to fight and definately no ccj im resigned enough to pay it now and be done with it

I just need to make sure that there is no ccj or equivalent because i do not think it fair to have it on my file for non payment before i even know of it.

Thanks again.

Got it.
Thank you for explaining further.
And thank you for your time.