London RUC — Reg 19 statutory-declaration revocation (order/charge-certificate stage escape hatch)
If a London road-user-charging penalty (Congestion Charge / ULEZ / LEZ) has escalated past the Charge Certificate to a county-court Order for Recovery, reg 19 of SI 2001/2313 lets you file a statutory declaration (witness statement) to have the Order for Recovery REVOKED and enforcement reset — many wrongly assume it is too late. Honest limits: revocation reopens the case, it does NOT finally cancel the penalty (the authority may re-serve and continue), and the statutory window runs from SERVICE of the Order for Recovery; filing late needs the court's out-of-time (extension) procedure with a stated reason.
Legal basis
Road User Charging (Enforcement and Adjudication) (London) Regulations 2001 (SI 2001/2313), reg 19 (invalid notices): statutory declaration on grounds (a) non-receipt of PCN, (b) no notice of rejection received, (c) no response to appeal; 21-day service window, extendable by the district judge; effects — order revoked, charge certificate cancelled, PCN deemed cancelled on the non-receipt ground.
How to identify this in your case
Trigger when the motorist is already at Charge Certificate, 'Order for Recovery', or county-court/bailiff stage AND one of: they never saw the original PCN (moved house / DVLA address wrong / posted to wrong keeper); OR they wrote representations but never got a Notice of Rejection back; OR they lodged an appeal and never heard from the adjudicator. Then the reg-19 statutory declaration (within 21 days of learning of the order, or seek an extension) revives the case rather than paying the inflated debt.
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