You Named the Driver Within 28 Days But Were Still Pursued
If you were not driving when the offence occurred, you had 28 days from the date on the fixed charge notice to tell the authorities who was driving. You had to do this on the correct form, signed by you. If you did that on time and the council or authority ignored it and came after you anyway as the registered owner, that action against you is misdirected.
Legal basis
Road Traffic Act 2010 s.35 (driver-identification by registered owner within 28 days; prescribed signed form to a Garda station or place specified in the notice).
How to identify this in your case
You returned a signed driver-identification form (or wrote to the address on the notice) within 28 days, and the council either ignored it or proceeded against you as keeper.
Sample appeal wording
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.
Section 35 of the Road Traffic Act 2010 obliges the registered owner to identify the driver within 28 days, in the prescribed form, and on receipt the proceedings should be redirected against the driver named. I complied within the statutory window on [DATE]; the present proceedings against me as keeper are therefore misdirected and should be discontinued.
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