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NCP Parking Contravention Charge Notice In Company Car?
I received a parking contravention charge notice from an NCP car park just before christmas. Basically, they don't give tickets you can stick you your window and when I closed my car door, it got blown off of my dash :( I have been reading so much on the internet about whether I should pay the fine, and everyone seems to say no. Its astronomical at £100, it was £50 but I just didn't have the money right before Christmas. The problem is, I have a company car, and I don't want to get in trouble with my company for not paying it. I was just wondering if anyone else has been in the same position and what they did?
Thanks in advance!
5 Answers
- SimonLv 48 years agoFavorite Answer
If you have your valid ticket. Fight it. Send them a copy. The fact it's a company car makes no difference
- Anonymous8 years ago
Don't trust the internet. You cannot rely on it - even this forum.
The legal situation is that you incurred a penalty charge from NCP. It doesn't matter whether you still have the ticket or not.
You were in breach of the contract you had with them. Basically it's that they provided a parking place and you agreed to pay for it - and any penalty for contravening their regulations.
It must still be settled.
It is likely that NCP will have the car number so they will be able to trace it back to the Registered Keeper, your company. They will issue the penalty to them. If this is not paid then NCP have the right to take the company to court for judgement.
Your company will know who was driving the car at the time - or at least they will know who was the employee responsible for it - so they will probably pass on the penalty notice to you. The general conditions of you having a company car nearly always include a clause making you (the employee) responsible for all motoring or parking fines and other penalties. You should have a copy with the car documents, read it.
You may choose not pay this penalty, it is the company who are legally liable, but it will certainly sour your relationship with them; and this can result in disciplinary action, recovery of the money from your wages, or even dismissal, depending on the specifics of your contract of employment.
These legal codnditions also apply to van and lorry drivers as well as company car drivers. Nobody can "hide behind the company" any more just becasue a camera or parking warden can't directly identify a driver.
- ?Lv 45 years ago
Joe Blows is entirely, thoroughly correct - delivering that the discover you bought was from a confidential enterprise instead than a police officer or council professional. Don't even suppose about paying this silly cost and ignore all of the letters you get from 'debt collection companies' and 'solicitors' - this will certainly not see the inside of a courtroom and no bailiff will name. Keep the receipt from your shopping along with the notice (which is fairly an bill) if it makes you suppose better on the grounds that you might show then to a courtroom that you were using the automobile park legitimately but you can be losing your time to be sincere - this is toilet paper. I've answered this query dozens of occasions however there are different sources. The first time I ever bought the sort of I wrote again and ahead for a while and spoke back to the letters then I moved to simply sending one letter informing the organization that the cost was in dispute and that rather than authorized motion i did not assume to hear from them again. Now I simply ignore them wholly and when some 21 year ancient minimum wage 'authorized consultant' telephones me to ask whether i'll pay I refer them to the protection From Harassment Act and British gas v Ferguson and have a tendency not to hear from them again. If I was once going to make a campaign i might want to know how they always look to be ready to get my cellular cellphone quantity from somewhere however I quite do not take them that seriously.
- ANDYLv 78 years ago
Hello
There are 2 options here
1/ You do not have a ticket to prove you paid so you might as well pay up as you have no proof of payment.
2/ You could ask to see their proof of you being parked there at the time as most take a Date/Time photo of the car front screen to show no ticket. If all they have is the written ticket you could let them take you to court then tell them you weren't parked there, They are just trying to hit targets so they got there Xmas bonus.
Andy C