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Scotland pavement, dropped-kerb or double-parking ticket — already paid in full, or the reduced charge paid within 14 days

For these Scottish tickets it is a ground of challenge that the enforcement notice should not have been served because the penalty had already been paid in full, or the reduced charge had been paid within the 14 days the regulations allow. The letter quotes the payment record.

Legal basis

Parking Prohibitions (Enforcement and Accounts) (Scotland) Regulations 2023 (S.S.I. 2023/373) regulation 10(4)(g): the ground "that the enforcement notice should not have been served because— (i) the penalty charge has been paid in full, or (ii) in the circumstances specified in regulation 2(2), the reduced penalty charge has been paid before the end of the period of 14 days specified in that regulation". Regulation 2(2): "If a penalty charge is paid before the end of a period of 14 days beginning with the date on which notice of a penalty charge is given under regulation 4 or served under regulation 5, the penalty charge is reduced by 50 percent." Read at legislation.gov.uk (latest available text) on 2026-09-09.

How to identify this in your case

Use this if you paid the penalty in full before the enforcement notice was served, or you paid the reduced amount within 14 days beginning with the date the penalty charge notice was given or served. Evidence: the receipt or bank record showing the amount, the date and the reference paid against.

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.

I make representations under regulation 10(1) of the Parking Prohibitions (Enforcement and Accounts) (Scotland) Regulations 2023 on the ground in regulation 10(4)(g) that the enforcement notice should not have been served because [the penalty charge was paid in full on DATE / the reduced penalty charge was paid on DATE, before the end of the period of 14 days beginning with DATE, the date on which notice of the penalty charge was given or served]. The payment record shows: "[AMOUNT, DATE AND REFERENCE AS SHOWN ON THE RECEIPT OR STATEMENT]". I enclose the evidence relevant to this ground, as regulation 10(2) requires: [EVIDENCE]. I ask that the enforcement notice be cancelled under regulation 11(2).

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Sources

Parking Prohibitions (Enforcement and Accounts) (Scotland) Regulations 2023 (S.S.I. 2023/373), regulations 2(2) and 10(4)(g)