The Civil Procedure (Amendment) Rules 1999

Requests for Orders and Warrants of Execution

3.—(1) An authority which wishes to take proceedings under this Order shall give notice to the court officer and, where the court officer so allows, a combined request for an order and a warrant of execution may be made, and such an order may be enforced and a warrant executed in accordance with the following provisions of this Order.

(2) An authority shall file a combined request for an order and a warrant of execution in the appropriate form or in another manner approved by the court officer scheduling the fixed penalties in respect of which an order and warrant of execution are sought.

(3) The authority shall in the request or in another manner approved by the court officer–

(a) certify–

(i) that 56 days have elapsed since the issue of the fixed penalty notice,

(ii) the amount due under the fixed penalty notice and the date on which it was issued, and

(iii) that the amount due remains unpaid;

(b) give the number of the fixed penalty notice;

(c) specify (whether by reference to the appropriate code or otherwise) the grounds stated in the fixed penalty notice and in regulation 2(1)(d) of the 1997 Regulations on which the authorised person who issued the fixed penalty notice believed that a fixed penalty was payable with respect to that vehicle;

(d) state–

(i) the name and address of the respondent and where known, his title;

(ii) the registration number of the vehicle concerned;

(iii) (whether by reference to the appropriate fixed penalty notice number or otherwise) the authority’s address for service;

(iv) the court fee.

(4) If satisfied that the combined request is in order, the court officer shall order that the fixed penalty (together with the court fee) may be recovered as if it were payable under a county court order by sealing the request and returning it to the authority.

(5) When the court officer so orders and on receipt of the sealed request, the authority shall, within 7 days of the sealing of the request, prepare the warrant in the appropriate form.