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Thank you for the response. I’ll have to see if I can amend the form then otherwise I’m scuppered.

It’s an Options after a magistrates' court decision form and I’m giving a statement of truth. It’s what the call centre told me to do when I explained the situation and told me this would reopen the case and allow me to go to court to hopefully get the result under discussion.

I suggest you take that document down as it contains your name, DOB and NI number.

That form has nothing to do with a Stat Dec.

All the court needs to know is that you have been convicted of an offence via proceedings of which you had no knowledge and that you want to make a statutory declaration to have the conviction removed.

I can see there being  confusion with the term “original offence”. Once the SD is done the niceties of that can be sorted out and you can make your offer to plead guilty to the real “original offence” provided the FtP is dropped.

Thank you for removing the personal details. Remiss of me. Ok so I’ll get this form cancelled and just fill in and submit an SD. Although I’m now outside the 21 days…

I'm still not sure what the purpose of the online form you've completed is and whether it commits you to anything at this point.

If you are now outside 21 days it might not be a good idea to cancel it.  Perhaps you should just sort out the "niceties" later when you come to swear it - as suggested by @NewJudge.

Wait and see what they think

Hi and thanks again for anyone reading.
I have spoken with STS this morning. So this web form they send is now apparently in lieu of the SD form. It has options for setting up fine payments as well as reopening other court proceedings. Option 5 is for completing an SD (or the equivalent) when you were unaware of proceedings. As I’m outside the 21 days to keep things moving, I’m leaving my plea as guilty to the original offence on the proviso the FTF is expunged (although probably not ideal. I’ll follow up with an email to them explaining my error but I don’t want to start again with a new form - I can’t amend the one submitted. It can be up to six months before I get a response from the courts apparently.. I’ll keep you updated.