LEZ penalty issued during your residents' grace period
Each Scottish Low Emission Zone (LEZ) gives local residents extra time before enforcement applies to them — this is called a residents' grace period. If your vehicle was detected inside an LEZ before your grace period had expired, no offence took place and any penalty is invalid. The grace periods are: Glasgow — resident grace until 1 June 2024; Edinburgh — until 1 June 2026; Dundee — until 30 May 2026; Aberdeen — until 1 June 2026. This only applies if your vehicle's registered address (on your V5C logbook) was inside the residential grace area on the date you were detected.
Legal basis
Transport (Scotland) Act 2019 s.15, s.16; SSI 2021/177 reg 8(4)(a); council LEZ Scheme Orders under s.9
How to identify this in your case
V5C registered keeper address on detection date is inside the published residential grace area; detection date is before resident grace expiry.
Sample appeal wording
Dear [COUNCIL] LEZ Team, Re: PCN [PCN_NUMBER] Representation under reg 8(1); ground reg 8(4)(a). Under s.15(1) of the Transport (Scotland) Act 2019, s.6(1) is not contravened where a vehicle is driven within an LEZ before the expiry of the applicable grace period. On [DETECTION_DATE]: 1. My V5C registered keeper address was [ADDRESS], within the residential grace area for the [GLASGOW/EDINBURGH/ABERDEEN/DUNDEE] LEZ as published in the LEZ Scheme Order made under s.9. 2. The applicable resident grace period expired on [GRACE_EXPIRY_DATE], after the detection date. 3. No contravention of s.6(1) occurred. Evidence: V5C; council's published LEZ residential map / grace schedule. Please cancel the PCN under reg 9(2). Yours faithfully, [NAME]
Replace [PARKING DATE], [NtK DATE] etc. with your own dates before sending.
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- Transport (Scotland) Act 2019 s.15
- council LEZ Scheme Orders
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