Nick Finnigan wrote:
The Legend wrote:
"Ordinary Hard Working Bloke"
wrote in message ...

and all I have is the 'Penalty Charge
Notice' which as I said is dated 5 weeks after the alleged
offence. Is there any statute that I can refer to on this matter?


IIRC, up to six months after the alleged offence. Although, uk.legal
will no doubt be able to give the definitive answer.

28 days - see http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/locact03/30003--c.htm#6

Not quite. It's normally 28 days, but if the council applied to the
Secretary of State (i.e. DVLA in practice) within 14 days for the name and
address of the registered keeper, and that information was not supplied by
DVLA by the 28-day deadline, then the council are allowed to delay the issue
of the PCN for a maximum of a further 6 months. (section 6, subsections 3 to
6)
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