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Scotland pavement, dropped-kerb or double-parking ticket — you were never the registered keeper, or became keeper only after the date

For these Scottish tickets it is a ground of challenge that the person served never was the registered keeper of the vehicle, or became the registered keeper only after the alleged contravention. The letter states which, gives the date, and attaches the keeper record.

Legal basis

Parking Prohibitions (Enforcement and Accounts) (Scotland) Regulations 2023 (S.S.I. 2023/373) regulation 10(4)(d): the ground "that the recipient— (i) never was the registered keeper of the relevant vehicle, or (ii) became the registered keeper after the alleged contravention occurred". Regulation 10(2): representations "must include any available evidence relevant to the specified ground relied upon". Read at legislation.gov.uk (latest available text) on 2026-09-09.

How to identify this in your case

Use this if you have never been the registered keeper of that vehicle, or you became its registered keeper after the date on the ticket. Evidence: your V5C registration document showing the date you acquired the vehicle, or the DVLA's confirmation of the keeper history.

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)(d) that I [never was the registered keeper of the relevant vehicle / became the registered keeper of the relevant vehicle only on DATE, after the alleged contravention on DATE]. 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 10(2) and 10(4)(d)