LEZ penalty notice missing required information

Every Low Emission Zone penalty notice must include 14 specific pieces of information. If any one of them is missing, the notice does not meet the legal standard and may be invalid. Common missing items include: the right to get the camera record for free, the right to appeal to a tribunal, a warning that you must not pay while a challenge is pending, the exact grounds on which you can challenge, and a statement about the 50% discount if you pay within 14 days.

Legal basis

SSI 2021/177 reg 6(5)(a)–(n); reg 8(4)(a)

How to identify this in your case

Read PCN side-by-side with reg 6(5) checklist. Missing 50% discount statement, missing ANPR-record right, missing tribunal appeal right, missing 'must not pay if rep pending', no specific reasons.

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. Replace the bracketed prompts with your own details; leave any case citation as it is.

Dear [COUNCIL] LEZ Team, Re: PCN [PCN_NUMBER] Representation under reg 8(1); ground reg 8(4)(a). The document purporting to be a PCN fails to comply with reg 6(5) SSI 2021/177: [List specific missing items, e.g.:] — No statement that representations may be made on reg 8(4) grounds (reg 6(5)(j)); — No statement of right to request approved-device record free of charge (reg 6(5)(n)); — No tribunal appeal right statement (reg 6(5)(m)). A document failing reg 6(5) is not a PCN. No valid PCN has been served. Please cancel. Yours faithfully, [NAME]

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LEZ penalty notice missing required information

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How to identify this in your case

Sample appeal wording

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