SPEEDING: SERVICE OF DOCUMENTS In circumstances when the Police use unmanned devices to record speed and intend to prosecute, it is their absolute duty to serve a Notice of Intended Prosecution on the Registered Keeper of a Motor Vehicle within 14 days of the offence. Please note that the Registered Keeper is not necessarily the owner or driver of the vehicle, nor the driver who committed the offence. The bad news is that the Notice has to be served at the last known address of the Registered Keeper, which is the one stored by the DVLA. If the Police can prove this was done, even though the Registered Keeper may have moved without telling the DVLA, Notices of this nature are usually deemed validly served. The good news is that this is an absolute time limit, and failure by the Police to comply is an absolute bar to Prosecutions save in very exceptional circumstances. The better news is that Notices of Intended Prosecution must be RECEIVED by the Registered Keeper within 14 days, not just posted. In cases of doubt, we thoroughly recommend you contact us and ALWAYS keep the envelope that the Notice arrived in as it may benefit you in such arguments
Posted on: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 09:09:45 +0000
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