FCN Cites Revoked 2020 Bye-Laws Instead of 2024 Bye-Laws (DCC)

Dublin City Council Parking Control Bye-Laws 2024 revoked the 2020 Bye-Laws with effect from 1 January 2024. Any FCN issued by Dublin City Council (or by DSPS on its behalf) on or after 1 January 2024 that quotes the revoked 2020 Bye-Laws as its statutory basis has a citation defect on its face.

Legal basis

Dublin City Council Parking Control Bye-Laws 2024 (effective 1 January 2024, revoking the 2020 Bye-Laws); Road Traffic Act 1994 s.36 (bye-law making power); Local Government Act 2001.

How to identify this in your case

Check the small-print on the FCN. If the offence date is on/after 1 January 2024 and the notice cites 'Dublin City Council Parking Control Bye-Laws 2020' it is wrong on its face.

Sample appeal wording

Before you send this

Deadline. A late submission can be turned down without your argument being read. Check your notice for the deadline and how it is counted.
Paying may end it. Paying can count as accepting the notice and can close a challenge already under way. Part-paying or acknowledging an old debt can also revive a time limit that had expired.
The amount can change. Check what happens to the sum if you challenge — it may be held, re-offered lower, or keep rising, and fees or enforcement can continue meanwhile.
Use the official route. Use the method, recipient and form your notice specifies, with any reference, evidence and signature it asks for. Sent elsewhere, it may not count.
Only say what is true. Do not copy any statement of fact unless it is true for you, and check the legal point still applies. Delete what does not fit. It may be treated as your statement.
Careful what you volunteer. Avoid unnecessary admissions — naming the driver or accepting responsibility can remove arguments. But answer anything you are legally required to answer, and do include the evidence your ground needs.
Keep the record. Keep what you sent, the attachments, any receipt, and the reply. Note the next deadline.

Sample wording to adapt and send yourself — it may not fit your notice or the stage you are at.

I appeal under regulation of the Road Traffic Act 2010. The Fixed Charge Notice cites the Dublin City Council Parking Control Bye-Laws 2020 as the source of the alleged offence. Those Bye-Laws were revoked on 1 January 2024 by the Dublin City Council Parking Control Bye-Laws 2024. As the offence date is after 1 January 2024 the notice is not in the prescribed form and the alleged offence does not exist under the cited instrument.

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Sources

https://www.dublincity.ie/council/learn-about-governance-within-council/bye-laws/parking-control-bye-laws-2024