Cengolio · Fines · PCN deadlines
The date in, the clocks out.
Every parking ticket is a set of clocks: a discount that closes, a payment window, and stages that only become possible once earlier ones expire. Enter the date on the notice and read where the case stands today, for a council or TfL penalty under the 2022 regulations, or a private parking charge under POFA 2012, where a missed day 14 can end keeper liability before it starts.
a window that closes possible from here on
Deadlines per SI 2022/71, SI 2022/576 and Schedule 4 to the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012, primary wording read on legislation.gov.uk 18 July 2026; the amounts at each stage live in the PCN ladder. Checked 18 July 2026.
This runs the statutory clocks; it does not judge a ticket. The dates here are the earliest and latest the law allows, not a prediction of when letters arrive. A postal council PCN must itself be served within 28 days of the contravention, with narrow extensions such as a DVLA request in the first 14, reg 10 SI 2022/71. Representations against a notice to owner are free, carry a 28-day window, and the authority has 56 days to answer; a rejection opens a fresh 28 days to pay or appeal. Posted notices count as delivered on the second working day, and hire vehicles run their own 21-day chains under POFA.
Private parking amounts are contractual, set by the operator and the accredited trade body, not by statute. Whether a notice was valid, whether service actually happened, and whether a tribunal or court agrees is argument and evidence, and none of it is arithmetic.
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