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5.—(1) This regulation applies where—
(a)an authorised enforcement officer attempted to give a penalty charge notice in accordance with regulation 4 but was prevented from doing so by any person, or
(b)an authorised enforcement officer had begun to prepare a penalty charge notice to be given in accordance with regulation 4, but the relevant vehicle was driven away from the place where it was stationary before the officer had finished preparing the notice or had given it in accordance with regulation 4.
(2) For the purposes of paragraph 1(b), an authorised enforcement officer who observes conduct which appears to constitute a contravention is not because of that observation to be taken to have begun to prepare a penalty charge notice.
(3) Where this regulation applies, an enforcement notice may be served on—
(a)the registered keeper of the relevant vehicle, or
(b)a person by whom the penalty charge is payable under regulation 3.
(4) An enforcement notice served under this regulation must contain the information set out in paragraph 3 of the schedule.
(5) An enforcement notice served in accordance with this regulation must be served before the end of the period of 28 days beginning with the contravention date.
(6) But where—
(a)within 14 days of the contravention date a local authority has made a request to the Secretary of State for the supply of relevant information, and
(b)that information has not been supplied before the end of the period specified in paragraph (5),
the local authority may serve an enforcement notice within 14 days beginning with the date on which the information is received under sub-paragraph (a).
(7) In this regulation—
“the contravention date” is the date on which, according to information given by an authorised enforcement officer, the contravention occurred,
“relevant information” means information relating to the identity and address of the registered keeper of the vehicle.
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