Hire Vehicle - POFA Para 13

If the vehicle was a hire vehicle at the time, the hire company can transfer liability back to the hirer under POFA 2012 Para 13, but only if specific procedures are followed.

Legal basis

POFA 2012 Schedule 4, Paragraph 13.

How to identify this in your case

If you hired a vehicle and receive a parking charge forwarded by the hire company, check if proper procedures were followed.

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.

This was a hire vehicle. Under POFA 2012 Schedule 4 Paragraph 13, the hire company must follow specific procedures to transfer liability to the hirer. Please confirm: 1. When the hire company received the NtK 2. When they served notice on me 3. That all documentary requirements were met Without proper compliance, I as hirer am not liable.

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Hire Vehicle - POFA Para 13

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How to identify this in your case

Sample appeal wording

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