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Thank you, @CharlieVictor33 - that'a good start. @Southpaw82 - thank you too - obviously I'm simply making the enquiry - it's up to them how they respond.

It looks as if their response will be "Nothing to do with us".

You need to be contacting National Highways

Does anyone have any comments please?

Yes. You have received a copy of a notice that clearly states that the restriction came into place on 28th November, which appears to address the only live issue in your case.

It is not entirely clear from your somewhat brief post whether you have read the notice and are seeking confirmation of your unstated understanding of it, do not understand it and are asking us to tell you what it said, or simply couldn't be bothered to read it as you had already done more than your fair share of the work by asking NHL for it.

So I have done their work for them and found evidence that there was an apparently watertight restriction in place, and have now been offered a NSAS course - which is fair enough, I guess. Thank you.

I'm not about to ask a judge to suck eggs, but it was the evidence that there was a temporary restriction correctly instituted that I required. In my experience Police Officers are rarely in any doubt, and I wouldn't take legal advice from one. The paperwork is interestingly geared to insisting you have done wrong and directing you down a path to admit it, rather than making an allegation and providing all the evidence to back that up. I recognise that had I contested the allegation the evidence would (may) have been presented, but again, you are dissuaded from normal Court activity by the variable penalties for different responses to the allegation. I went and found the relevant evidence, which is required at this early stage despite the fact that all I am presented with is an allegation. Just sometimes it turns out that some part of the process has not been correctly carried out, such as Clarke v CPS 2013 EWHC 366 (Admin). I am now satisfied that the order was in place, and this forum helped me with the missing link which was what that order was and how it may be found.