PART 3

PENALTY CHARGES

Notice and Application of Penalty Charges

26.1 Where a contravention of Articles 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4(a), 4.4.(b), 4.4(d), 4.4(e), 5(a), 5(c), 6.5(2), and 10 of the Order occurs a penalty charge at the higher level specified in column 1 of Schedule 2 shall become due and payable in respect of an offence

26.2 Where a contravention of Articles 4.4(c), 5(b), 6.1, 6.5(1), 6.6, 6.7, 6.8, 6.9, 7, 9, and 15 of the Order occurs a penalty charge at the lower level specified in column 2 of Schedule 2 shall become due and payable in respect of an offence

26.3 Where a penalty charge is due a Penalty Charge Notice ("PCN") shall either:

• (a)be fixed to the Vehicle, or
• (b)given to the person appearing to the Civil Enforcement Officer to be in charge of the Vehicle, or
• (c)served by post on the person appearing to the Council to be the Owner of the Vehicle where the Civil Enforcement Officer attempted to serve the PCN but was prevented from doing so, or had begun to prepare a PCN but the vehicle had been driven away, or where a contravention is recorded on an Approved Device

26.4 Where a Vehicle remains in a position so as to attract a PCN a further PCN may be issued on each calendar day thereafter

Restriction on Removal of Penalty Charge Notice

27.1 Where a PCN has been attached to a Vehicle in accordance with the provisions of Article 26.3 of this Order no person other than a Civil Enforcement Officer or some other person duly authorised by the Council or the Driver shall remove the PCN from the vehicle

27.2 A person contravening Article 27.1 shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 2 on the standard scale