# The Criminal Procedure Rules 2025, Rule 29.4: Statutory declaration to avoid fine after fixed penalty notice

Extent: E+W

(1) This rule applies where—
(a) a chief officer of police, or the Secretary of State, serves on the magistrates’ court officer a certificate registering, for enforcement as a fine, a sum payable by a defendant after failure to comply with a fixed penalty notice;
(b) the court officer notifies the defendant of the registration; and
(c) the defendant makes a statutory declaration with the effect that there become void—
(i) the fixed penalty notice, or any associated notice sent to the defendant as owner of the vehicle concerned, and
(ii) the registration and any enforcement proceedings.
(2) The defendant must serve that statutory declaration not more than 21 days after service of notice of the registration, unless the court extends that time limit.
(3) The court officer must—
(a) serve a copy of the statutory declaration on the person by whom the certificate was registered;
(b) cancel any endorsement on the defendant’s driving record (and on any counterpart licence, if other legislation requires); and
(c) notify the Secretary of State of any such cancellation.
[Note. See sections 72(1), ... (6A), 73(1) and 74(2) of the Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988.
For the circumstances in which—
(a) a sum may be registered for enforcement as a fine after failure to comply with a fixed penalty notice, see sections 54, 55, 62, 63, 64, 70 and 71 of the 1988 Act;
(b) the registration may become void on the making of a statutory declaration by the defendant, see sections 72 and 73 of the 1988 Act.
Under rule 2.11 (Taking of statutory declarations by court officers) a court officer may take the statutory declaration to which this rule refers.]

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/909/rule/29.4 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-rules-2025/rule-29.4
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