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We've already told you that an appeal to the IAS is an exercise in futility. You seem under the misapprehension that you are dealing with some sort of regulatory body that has some sort of oversight. Get it into your head that the IPC and the IAS are not any forms of authority. They are both trading names of private companies that have the same directors.

Also, one of the directors of the IPC is also the director of Gladstone's solicitors, a bulk litigation company that will be used to send out claims. In other words, the IPC/IAS is judge, jury and executioner. Don't think for a second that there is any fairness or accountability in this process.

Feel free to waste your own time and effort. The outcome will not change.

Hi,

For these tickets, if 28 days have passed since the ticket was issued, is that when the keeper becomes liable for the parking charge and not the driver?

thanks

Thank you.  I needed to read a bit more.  My deciphering of that legislation (at least in relation to Gunnersbury Park and Gemini) is that a valid drivers notice was never issued because it has to be a physical ticket attached to the stationery car while it is parked (schedule 4, para 7 (4)).

If those conditions haven't been met it is not possible to issue a valid keepers notice - which is where the 28 days is mentioned (para 4 - "Right to claim unpaid parking charges from keeper of vehicle").


Does that tally with people's understanding?

Thanks again.

If the PCN is issued as a windscreen Notice to Driver (NtD) then PoFA paragraph 7 applies and the 28 day response period you are referring to is is if the NtD is not responded to and a follow up, postal Notice to Keeper (NtK) is then issued.

There is no requirement to issue an NtD, whether ANPR or a patrol takes the evidential photos. If no NtD is issued, then a postal NtK can be issued and the "relevant period" for the 'service' of that, in order to be able to transfer liability from the unknown driver to the known Keeper, is 14 days from the day after the date of the alleged contravention.