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Received what I'm sure is a NIP (google of the sender postcode shows it's from a specific Police agency ) but unsure whether to open envelope as it is addressed incorrectly.

Addressed to a company at No 19 but the actual address is 9.

Diligent postie ensured it was posted to the correct address 

Not sure we have even been in that specific county within the last month.

Would best approach be to return to sender unopened and marked unknown at this address?

Just checked

Should have realised when the V5C arrived a few months ago but address on V5C is incorrect too 

Company is registered keeper but slight address anomaly

Received a Conditional Offer of Fixed Penalty

Paid the fine online but then noticed an error on the paperwork

"If you wish to accept the Conditional Offer of Fixed Penalty, please read and follow the instructions on pages 2 and 3 of this document.

The penalty amount is fixed at £100 and your driving licence will be endorsed with 3 penalty points.

Please note that to accept the offer of fixed penalty you must be able to comply with ALL of the conditions set out on pages 4 and 5"



Page 1 - is the Conditional Offer
Page 2 - How to make a Fixed Penalty Payment
Page 3 - Submission of driving licence details
Page 4 - Terms & Conditions of the Conditional Offer

Page 5 does not exist

Is there anything that can be contested?


So it states I must be able to comply with ALL conditions on pages 4 and 5 but

Have you submitted your driving licence details?

Is this related to the NIP that was sent to the company at no. 19 instead of no. 9.

Would the conditions be the conditions set out in law (s 75(8A) of the Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988)?

The conditions of the offer as laid down in the legislation are that you must make the necessary payment and that you must fulfil the requirement to provide identity details. If you were made aware of those conditions it doesn't really matter how the pages are numbered. Were those conditions made clear to you?

So, seems we just have to accept the 2nd part and submit the form to accept the endorsement

You don't have to accept anything. It is an offer which you are free to refuse, ignore or fail to comply with. If you do any of those, as I suggested earlier, the police will prosecute you. If I were you I would get a shift on. Now that your threads have been merged I can see that the offence took place close on five months ago. If you don't complete the process asap the police will withdraw the offer and prosecute you anyway.

As an aside:

completed the 3rd RfDI form and added notes that it was not an admission of offence but that we understood somebody had to be charged

I'm surprised you were not charged with "Failing to provide driver's details."

No they can't.

But we don't know when the offer was made. The offence must have been before June 13h and we heard nothing between then and November 13th. The offence times out in early December and the police do no usually make an offer of a FP much more than four months from the date of he offence. It would be a reasonable guess that the offer was made well before the end of October.