Parking Ticket!

[LINZI420]

Does anyone know, I saw a thing on the TV which said that a parking enforcement officer must obtain your tax disc number when issuing a ticket, otherwise the parking ticket is not valid. Does anyone know if this is true?

[Ethel]

That's a nonsense. Otherwise people with no tax could not be issued with a parking ticket.

Some councils issue parking tickets by post, after seeing the offence on CCTV. A lot of private car parks work this way too - the first you know about it is when the ticket is delivered to your home a week or so later. No chance of copying details of the tax disc there.

[Toureman]

If only the police were as efficient as Parking Wardens, Parking authorities have zero tolerance, pity the police don't have it then the UK would be a safer place.

[Grunty]

The point about the tax disc number is that many older police officers make a note of it. This is a safeguard against allegations that they took the wrong vehicle number. If they do not do so, it does not in any way affect the validity of the ticket.