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Not sure if you got an answer to this or not, but after the 56 days, the PCN has to be waived automatically. Same thing happened with me with the TFL for a yellow box violation, and it went over the allotted time to reply on their end. So even if you are in the wrong, they have to waive it. 

Usually you are contacted via letter or email to confirm this. If they don't waive it and try and charge you, just read back to terms and conditions about the 56 days, they shouldn't have a leg to stand on.

The 56 day statutory limit only applies to formal representations, it does not apply to an 'informal challenge' where timings are subject to the test of reasonableness.

We don't know which applies because we have not yet seen the PCN.

Quote from: Incandescent on October 19, 2023, 12:51:20 pm

It seems to me this is the ley sentence: -

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Since then a notice to owner (NTO) was served, however due to life events, I was unable to respond within the 28 day period.

Please post your reps that you submitted, albeit late, against the Notice to Owner.

Form TE9 does not seem to cover your circumstances: -
/https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1094509/TE9.pdf

The text in the original appeal was re-sent (please see original post - spoiler tag) and dated the letter to be within the NTO period.

This might suggest that, if ignored by the authority as out-of-time or challenged by them that your reps to the NtO were not submitted in time, you will rely on your pre-dating these so they appear to have been submitted, by you, in-time.

Is this your intention?

I would think a word with the policeman should get you a note giving on the instruction of police exemption validity even if that instruction was only implied

No such exemption was implied.