73 Notices fixed to vehicles: when registration invalid

73  Notices fixed to vehicles: when registration invalid

(1)     This section applies where—

(a)     a person who has received notice of the registration, by virtue of section 64(2) of this Act, of a sum under section 71 of this Act for enforcement against him as a fine makes a statutory declaration to the effect mentioned in subsection (2) below, and

(b)     that declaration is, within twenty-one days of the date on which the person making it received notice of the registration, served on the [proper officer] of the relevant court.

(2)     The statutory declaration must state either—

(a)     that the person making the declaration did not know of the fixed penalty concerned or of any fixed penalty notice or notice to owner relating to that penalty until he received notice of the registration, or

(b)     that he was not the owner of the vehicle at the time of the alleged offence of which particulars are given in the relevant notice

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