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Loading Bay Restriction Applies Only During Information-Plate Period (art.42(1))

Article 42(1) of S.I. 182/1997 provides that where the RRM 009 loading bay marking is provided, a non-goods vehicle shall not be parked 'during a period which shall be indicated on an information plate'. Outside the period stated on the plate, any vehicle may park in the bay. If no plate states the period, the restriction's operative hours are not lawfully communicated.

Legal basis

Road Traffic (Traffic and Parking) Regulations 1997 (S.I. 182/1997) art.42(1); art.4(4).

How to identify this in your case

Ticketed in a loading bay in the evening/weekend? Photograph the plate: what hours does it state? No plate at all is itself the defect.

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.

The loading-bay restriction operates only during the period indicated on the information plate; the vehicle was parked outside that period (or no plate states a period).

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Loading Bay Restriction Applies Only During Information-Plate Period (art.42(1))

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