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Just an update so far. I submitted my paperwork to the SJP office and waited for it to be assigned to a court. I spoke to the court direct and they made an appointment to appear in court for a statuary declaration.
I requested it expedited due to the ban and they were very helpful and gave me a date within 2 weeks.
I attended and made the declaration that I was unaware of the proceedings along with my paperwork showing postal issues and they have re opened the case.
I have a date set for March next year and any points and resulting totting up ban has been wiped off my record.
Very grateful for everyone’s help and input

The written charge.

Should I have received a ‘written charge’ in the post?
I’m just trying to work out which document a written charge is. And to clarify which date I need to be aware of.
 I have no document with the name ‘written charge’ on it. I have a ‘police report:section s172 offence’ and a postal requisition. Is either of them the written charge? Both of these are dated 11/12/2023

On the police report within the witness statement section it states
‘on 22/11/2023 I checked the FPU system ….. absence of record or reply no reply recieved’
‘A requisition was issued.’

But that requisition is not dated until 11/12/2023


And to confuse me even more it says in the SJPN dated 16/01/2024 (which I gather is not the ‘written charge’) it says charge date is 10/01/2024

Thankyou

When you say
‘This is done when the necessary documents were issued.’
What are the necessary documents?

Please can you expand on which documents and dates you see as conflicting.

And you say ‘contact the prosecution’
Are you saying I contact the court prior to completing the online form I’ve been instructed to do or is this something I ask later down the line.

The failure to furnish is also a far more serious offence with 6 points minimum penalty.  You basically have to decide whether you want to pursue the fail  to furnish which is possible but often fraught with difficulties, or following the stat dec and re prosecution of both offences, do a plea bargain to accept the speeding charge if the FtF is dropped.  They nearly always oblige.

Thankyou

The SJPN has only the failure to furnish charge on it.
Not the speeding offence which it refers to.
Does that make any difference in the options you have outlined above?

The reason I was asking about the timescales is because I thought the speeding offence hasn’t been added because it is out of time.
If that is the case then there is question over the timescales for the FtF offence and whether that is also out of time.

Everywhere I’ve read there is no definite on when the 6 months timescales start and end.
Does it start with the first s172 request +29 days
Or depending on how many letters they send out they can pick at date off one of them?
It’s seems having read a few other instances that it’s normally the first - if I’ve been sent another letter and they’ve chosen that date to use isn’t that just them stretching the timescales in an effort to enable a charge saying that the speeding charge is out of time.

Then there is no info on where the 6 month timescale ends.
Is it that the SJPN has to be sent before the 6month deadline?

I know I’m probably clutching at straws but I do have solicitors letter regarding the mail going missing at the property dated around the same time period, so I do think I stand a good chance of arguing the not received.

For an offence committed on 29/08/23 they have until the following February to commence pro, so they were well in time in January.

This is what I’m trying to work out - if I was caught speeding 04/23 then given 28 days to respond my failure to respond offence would be on the 29th day so 05/23

Why have they then recorded my failure to respond offence as 08/23 ?

By issued i mean committed the offence
(I'm sorry I don’t know how to word things properly and my memory/processing is not great.
I keep having to read and re read and it’s confusing for me.) I’ll explain
So…
I was caught speeding sent an s172 request for info 
I’m assuming (I did not receive it) I would have been given ‘X’ amount of days to respond. Let’s say 28 days. You would think on the 29th day I’ve passed the deadline date and therefore have committed a offence of failing to provide which would give reason for a charge with a s172 failure to reply offence…..?
So why if I’ve been sent a s172 request on 12/04/2023 has the charge of failure to notify been dated 4 months later?
The Postal requisition sent and dated 11/12/23 stating charge of failure to supply details 29/08/23

I’m just trying to work out the 6month timescales - do I have an argument to say the August date is wrong and that 6 months from the date of the original speeding offence plus 1month would mean the postal requisition sent in December is out of time?

It would be really helpful if you could explain the 6 month timescale.