[F1Request for hearingS
Textual Amendments
F1Sch. 6B inserted (S.) (1.10.2008) by Transport (Scotland) Act 2005 (asp 12), s. 54(2), sch. 5; S.S.I. 2008/15, art. 2(3), sch. 2
7(1)A person to whom a fixed penalty notice has been given may, before the expiry of the period for payment of the penalty, give notice requesting a hearing in respect of the offence to which the fixed penalty notice relates.S
(2)A notice requesting a hearing under sub-paragraph (1) shall be in writing and shall be sent by post or delivered to the person specified under paragraph 3(2)(c) in the fixed penalty notice at the address so specified.
(3)For the purposes of this paragraph and unless the contrary is proved, the sending of a notice by post is deemed to have been effected at the time at which the notice would be delivered in the ordinary course of post.
(4)Where a person has requested a hearing in accordance with this section—
(a)the road works authority shall hold the hearing,
(b)a person authorised for the purpose by the road works authority in whose area the offence was committed shall notify the procurator fiscal of the request, and
(c)the period for payment of the fixed penalty shall be calculated so that the period beginning with the giving of the notice under this paragraph and ending with the receipt by the person who gave that notice of the decision reached at the hearing is left out of account.]