63 Service of notice to owner if penalty not paid
Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988 (1988 c 53) | Legislation

63  Service of notice to owner if penalty not paid

(1)     This section applies where a fixed penalty notice relating to an offence has been fixed to a vehicle under section 62 of this Act.

(2)     Subject to subsection (3) below, if at the end of the suspended enforcement period the fixed penalty has not been paid in accordance with this Part of this Act, a notice under this section may be served by or on behalf of the [relevant person] on any person who appears to him (or to any person authorised to act on his behalf for the purposes of this section) to be the owner of the vehicle.

Such a notice is referred to in this Part of this Act as a “notice to owner”.

[(2A)     In this section “the relevant person” means—

(a)     if the fixed penalty notice was fixed by a constable, the chief officer of police, and

(b)

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