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       #Post#: 121527--------------------------------------------------
       Re: CN appeal to adjudicator – bought car after PCN date, need
       final sanity check
   DIR By: janss1234
       Date: June 11, 2026, 4:13 pm
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       --- Quote from: ManxTom link ---
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       > [quote author=janss1234 link=topic=11132.msg121523#msg121523
       date=1781211289]
       > [quote author=ManxTom link=topic=11132.msg121521#msg121521
       date=1781209662]
       > And was 05 March 2026 the date of the parking contravention or
       the date of issue of the PCN?
       >
       > You've said both in different posts
       >
       > Do you not know why Greenwich seem to be convinced that you
       were RK on the date of the contravention when you say you only
       became RK wef 07 March 2026, and that that is what the DVLA
       shows?
       >
       > "... The DVLA sent us your details as being the registered
       keeper of the vehicle on the date of the contravention..."
       >
       --- End Quote ---
       Yes, 05 March 2026 was the date of the PCN and I bought the car
       on 07 March 2026, The DVLA sent us your details as being the
       registered keeper of the vehicle on the date of the
       contravention I dont understand how this is possible when I
       bought the car after the PCN was received, I did do a SAR on the
       car and it shows I was the RK on the 11/01/2026, a whole two
       months before I even went to see the car. The car was likely in
       trade, is it possible to place a person as RK even before buying
       the car if the car is in trade?
       [/quote]
       Ah... you didn't mention that earlier...  No idea how you would
       have been showing as RK nearly three months before you bought
       it?
       You had no earlier connection to the car?
       What was the date of the contravention?
       And when will your appeal be in front of the adjudicator?
       [/quote] I had 0 connection to the car before I went to buy it,
       the contravention date was 05 March 2026 and I got a week or so
       left before I the appeal window closes.
       #Post#: 121528--------------------------------------------------
       Re: CN appeal to adjudicator – bought car after PCN date, need
       final sanity check
   DIR By: ManxTom
       Date: June 11, 2026, 4:32 pm
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       Sorry - of course the PCN date is the contravention date...
       That's what I get for reading this and watching the football at
       the same time.  Doh!
       Odd coincidence that you should be showing as RK of a car you
       knew nothing about and three months later you end up buying it.
       #Post#: 121537--------------------------------------------------
       Re: CN appeal to adjudicator – bought car after PCN date, need
       final sanity check
   DIR By: CharlieVictor33
       Date: June 12, 2026, 12:55 am
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       Is it possible that the person who you bought the car from has
       given your details to the council, either purposely to avoid the
       charge, or absent-mindedly thinking it wasn't them hence why
       they are chasing you?
       #Post#: 121547--------------------------------------------------
       Re: CN appeal to adjudicator – bought car after PCN date, need
       final sanity check
   DIR By: peodude
       Date: June 12, 2026, 3:26 am
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       When you sell the car you fill in the date of sale, so the most
       likely explanation is that this was backdated, ever accidentally
       with a typo, or deliberately.
       What is the date of issue on the logbook?
       #Post#: 121575--------------------------------------------------
       Re: CN appeal to adjudicator – bought car after PCN date, need
       final sanity check
   DIR By: tincombe
       Date: June 12, 2026, 6:01 am
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       I had 0 connection to the car before I went to buy it, the
       contravention date was 05 March 2026 and I got a week or so left
       before I the appeal window closes.
       However,
       I did do a SAR on the car and it shows I was the RK on the
       11/01/2026,
       The regs:
       Person by whom a penalty charge is to be paid
       6.—(1) Where a relevant road traffic contravention occurs, the
       person by whom the penalty charge is to be paid is to be
       determined in accordance with this regulation.
       .......
       4) In a case not falling within paragraph (2), the penalty
       charge is payable by the person who was the owner of the vehicle
       involved in the contravention at the material time.
       From the Act:
       “owner”, in relation to a vehicle, means the person by whom the
       vehicle is kept, which in the case of a vehicle registered under
       the Vehicle Excise and Registration Act 1994 (c. 22) is presumed
       (unless the contrary is proved) to be the person in whose name
       the vehicle is registered
       You have to rebut(to use the legal term) the presumption that
       even though (for reasons you've not or cannot explain) you were
       the registered keeper on the day of contravention you did not
       keep the vehicle.
       The authority had DVLA's record of RK, so they're not to blame.
       IMO, just because you bought the vehicle on day X does not mean
       you had not kept it before, for all anyone knows you had it on
       approval for months before and were testing it, or whatever.
       IMO, focus on 'I had 0 connection to the car before I went to
       buy it' and collect everything in your mind to prove this e.g.
       did you have another car etc.
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