Valid Blue Badge Was Displayed in a Disabled Bay

This applies to council-marked disabled parking bays (offence code 40). No offence takes place if a valid Blue Badge was correctly displayed during the journey, the parking clock was set to your arrival time where one is required, and the badge holder was being transported. If you had a valid badge properly on display — or the civil enforcement officer simply missed it — the penalty charge notice (PCN) should be cancelled.

Legal basis

Disabled Persons (Badges for Motor Vehicles) (England) Regulations 2000 (SI 2000/682); Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act 1970 s.21; Traffic Management Act 2004 Part 6

How to identify this in your case

Ask yourself: was your Blue Badge valid on the date and time of the PCN? Was it clearly displayed? If a parking clock was required, was it set correctly? Was the badge holder present, or being dropped off or collected at the time?

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.
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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 against this PCN (contravention 40). A valid Blue Badge (serial [NUMBER]) was correctly displayed on the dashboard with the clock set, and the badge holder was being transported. The vehicle was therefore lawfully parked in the disabled bay under the Disabled Persons (Badges for Motor Vehicles) (England) Regulations 2000. I enclose a copy of the badge and request cancellation.

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Valid Blue Badge Was Displayed in a Disabled Bay

Legal basis

How to identify this in your case

Sample appeal wording

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