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2. A regulation 6 penalty charge notice, in addition to the matters required to be included in it by regulation 3(4) of the Representations and Appeals Regulations, must state—
(a)The date of the notice;
(b)the matters specified in paragraphs 1(b),(c), (d), (f) and (i);
(c)the grounds on which the enforcement authority believes that a penalty charge is payable;
(d)that the penalty charge must be paid not later than a specified date which must be the last day of the period of 28 days beginning with the date on which the penalty charge notice will be taken to have been served;
(e)that if the penalty charge is paid before the end of the applicable period, the penalty charge will be reduced by the amount of any applicable discount;
(f)that if after the date specified in accordance with subparagraph (d)
(i)no representations have been made in accordance with regulation 4 of the Representations and Appeals Regulations; and
(ii)the penalty charge has not been paid,
the enforcement authority may increase the penalty charge by the amount of any applicable surcharge and take steps to enforce payment of the charge as so increased; and
(g)that the penalty charge notice is being served by post for whichever of the following reasons applies—
(i)that the penalty charge notice is being served by post on the basis of a record produced by an approved device;
(ii)that it is being so served, because a civil enforcement officer attempted to serve a penalty charge notice by affixing it to the vehicle or giving it to the person in charge of the vehicle but was prevented from doing so by some person; or
(iii)that it is being so served because a civil enforcement officer had begun to prepare a penalty charge notice in accordance with regulation 5, but the vehicle was driven away from the place in which it was stationary before the civil enforcement officer had finished preparing the penalty charge notice or had served it in accordance with regulation 5.
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