{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-act-1991/schedule-6/paragraph-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-act-1991/schedule-6/paragraph-1.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1991/40",
  "legislation_title": "Road Traffic Act 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-act-1991",
  "path": "schedule/6/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Where—\n(a) a penalty charge notice has been issued with respect to a vehicle under section 66 of this Act; and\n(b) the period of 28 days for payment of the penalty charge has expired without that charge being paid,\nthe London authority concerned may serve a notice (“a notice to owner”) on the person who appears to them to have been the owner of the vehicle when the alleged contravention occurred.\n(2) A notice to owner must state—\n(a) the amount of the penalty charge payable;\n(b) the grounds on which the parking attendant who issued the penalty charge notice believed that a penalty charge was payable with respect to the vehicle;\n(c) that the penalty charge must be paid before the end of the period of 28 days beginning with the date on which the notice to owner is served;\n(d) that failure to pay the penalty charge may lead to an increased charge being payable;\n(e) the amount of that increased charge;\n(f) that the person on whom the notice is served (“the recipient”) may be entitled to make representations under paragraph 2 below; and\n(g) the effect of paragraph 5 below.\n(3) The Secretary of State may prescribe additional matters which must be dealt with in any notice to owner.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 6 repealed (E.W.) (31.3.2008) by Traffic Management Act 2004 (c. 18), s. 99(1), Sch. 12 Pt. 1; S.I. 2007/2053, arts. 1(2), 3(1)(2)(h)(ii) (with arts. 4-8) (as amended (17.3.2008) by S.I. 2008/757, arts. 3, 5); S.I. 2007/3174, art. 2, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Sch. 6 para. 1(1) restricted (20.9.2000) by 2000 c. vii, s. 7(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1991/40/schedule/6/paragraph/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:37:08.642287+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}