The Road User Charging (Enforcement and Adjudication) (London) Regulations 2001

Charge certificates

17.—(1) Where a penalty charge notice is served on any person and the penalty charge to which it relates is not paid before the end of the relevant period, the charging authority serving the notice may serve on that person a statement (a “charge certificate”) to the effect that the penalty charge in question is increased by such proportion as may be specified in the charging scheme under which it was incurred.

(2) The relevant period, in relation to a penalty charge notice, is the period of 28 days beginning—

(a) where no representations are made under regulation 13, with the date on which the penalty charge notice is served;

(b) where—

(i) such representations are made;

(ii) a notice of rejection is served by the charging authority concerned; and

(iii) no appeal against the notice of rejection is made,

with the date on which the notice of rejection is served; or

(c) where there has been an unsuccessful appeal against a notice of rejection, with the date on which notice of the adjudicator’s decision is served on the appellant.

(3) Where an appeal against a notice of rejection is made but is withdrawn before the adjudicator gives notice of his decision, the relevant period in relation to a penalty charge notice is the period of 14 days beginning with the date on which the appeal is withdrawn.