# The Road User Charging Schemes (Penalty Charges, Adjudication and Enforcement) (England) Regulations 2013, Paragraph 2: Initiating an appeal

Extent: E+W

(1) An appeal is to be made by serving a notice of appeal to the proper officer.
(2) A notice of appeal—
(a) must be in writing and signed by the appellant or someone authorised by the appellant to sign the notice of appeal;
(b) must state the name and address of the appellant;
(c) may specify some other address as being the address at which the appellant wishes documents to be served in connection with the appeal;
(d) must state the date and any reference number of the penalty charge notice being appealed against and the name of the charging authority by which the decision to impose the penalty charge was made; and
(e) may include any representations which the appellant desires to make in addition to the original representations.
(3) The notice of appeal must be served on the proper officer within the appeal period.
(4) If the notice of appeal is served on the proper officer after the expiry of the appeal period, the appellant must include in the notice a statement of the reasons on which the appellant relies for justifying the delay, and the adjudicator must treat any such statement of reasons for delay as a request to extend the appeal period.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/1783/schedule/paragraph/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/road-user-charging-schemes-penalty-charges-adjudication-and-enforcement-england-regulations-2013/schedule/paragraph-2
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