The Civil Enforcement of Parking Contraventions (Penalty Charge Notices, Enforcement and Adjudication) (Wales) Regulations 2008

The notice to owner

11.—(1) Subject to regulation 12, where—

(a) a penalty charge notice has been issued with respect to a vehicle under regulation 5; and

(b) the period of 28 days specified in the penalty charge notice as the period within which the penalty charge is to be paid has expired without that charge being paid,

the enforcement authority concerned may serve a notice (“a notice to owner”) on the person who appears to them to have been the owner of the vehicle when the alleged contravention occurred.

(2) A notice to owner served under paragraph (1) must, in addition to the matters required to be included in it under regulation 3(3) of the Representations and Appeals Regulations, state—

(a) the name of the enforcement authority serving the notice;

(b) the amount of the penalty charge payable;

(c) the date on which the penalty charge notice was served;

(d) the grounds on which the civil enforcement officer who served the penalty charge notice under regulation 5 believed that a penalty charge was payable with respect to the vehicle;

(e) that the penalty charge must be paid not later than a specified date which must be the last day of the period (“the payment period”) of 28 days beginning with the date (which must be stated in the notice) on which the notice to owner is, in accordance with regulation 3(2), to be taken to have been served;

(f) that if, after the payment period has expired, no representations have been made under regulation 4 of the Representations and Appeals Regulations and the penalty charge has not been paid, the enforcement authority may increase the penalty charge by the applicable surcharge;

(g) the amount of the increased penalty charge;