Our council CP's require reg no.
They are invisible to parking wardens.
That has everything to do with greedy car park companies. Before the requirement to enter your registration number, you could pass the ticket on to another 'customer'. IMO, that was only fair as (effectively) you rented some space for some time and it should be up to you which vehicle occupied that space! The reg no thing means that the parking companies often get paid twice (or more) for the same space).
As the video in my OP noted, the business model for at least some parking companies is to benefit from the fees due from non-payment, overstaying, etc. Thankfully, there are some car parks where you either obtain some form of token on entry or use ANPR so you pay the correct amount on leaving.Yea, and pay what you owe on exit. No chance for anything to go wrong.
But that wouldn't make any money in fines would it
Always take a pictureMy take is that if it’s a private parking company, and not an “old fashioned” legit parking ticket issued by “old fashioned” publicly-paid parking wardens, chances of it ending up in court are pretty much slim to zero.
I wouldn’t lose any sleep over, that’s for sure. Life’s too short (for me at least) to be worrying about these minor irritations.
I also reckon the thing that most people will feel threatened/bullied by (and therefore don’t bother contesting and just pay up for an easy life) is the potential outcome of non-payment of the fine itself. This is the main “bogeyman” threat used by these private companies telling folk they’ll get a “black mark” affecting their “credit score”, which I reckon must be a humongous chunk of the population these days, making it a highly effective modern-day weapon to get people to pay up, even when the circumstances of any fine are highly questionable.
If it’s a legit parking ticket, i.e. issued under a TRO or under Highway Code rules and not on some privately owned and managed land used for parking, then you can still contest it, but only if you can provide evidence to back yourself up. As it appears to be the case that your sil would find that a little more difficult (paid cash, no ticket retained as evidence) then it will be easier to just pay up and put it down to experience - and to remember to hang onto any physical tickets for a few weeks if parking in the same way in the future just in case
This is something I always used to do -- and still do where the system doesn't require your registration number.
I suspect it depends on whether you're paying for a space (which I suspect you would be if you just payed for so much parking without specifying which vehicle was to be parked), or paying to park a specific vehicle...
This was made illegal in one of the Theft Acts, IIRC. I *think* it is classed as obtaining a pecuniary advantage by deception which was originally covered by S14 of the Theft Act 1978, and I'm sure the passing of unexpired parking tickets onto someone else has been tested in Court
Last time I got a parking ticket in the van they supplied various images of the windscreen and dash board top to demonstrate I hadn't displayed a ticket. Don't know if there's a requirement to display via the windscreen and if a side or rear window would suffice?
I tried looking this one up. AFAICT, S14 of the Theft Act 1978 doesn't exist. The Theft Act 1968 has a section 14, but that appears to apply to mail? Also, I couldn't find any case law that tested this. About the best I could do with this is that it seems to depend on the applicable terms and conditions. If the T&Cs say that the ticket is non-transferrable, accepting a ticket from another could be 'deception' on the part of the accepting party if they used it to avoid payment. I can't believe that handing a piece of paper to another could be an offence unless it could be shown that it was done with intention to defraud?!
