PATROL - Participating councils

Glossary / Traffic Enforcement Centre (TEC)

Approved device (including cameras)

Authorisation Notice

Challenge - Post Notice to Owner (Formal Challenge)

Challenge - Pre Notice to Owner

Charge Certificate

Civil Enforcement Authority

Civil Enforcement Officer

Civil Justice System

Compelling Reasons

Contravention Code

Controlled Parking Zone (CPZ)

Debt Registration

Decriminalisation

Designated Parking Bays

Grounds for Appeal

Magistrates' Court

Notice of Appeal (NOA)

Notice of Rejection of Representations (NOR)

Notice to Owner (NTO)

Order for Recovery

Parking and Traffic Appeals Service (PATAS)

Penalty Charge Notice (PCN)

Procedural Impropriety

Registered Keeper

Registered Keeper

Signs and lines

Statutory Declaration

Telephone Hearing

Towing Away (Removal)

Traffic Enforcement Centre (TEC)

Situated currently at the County Court in Northampton, this is the centre where unpaid penalty charges are registered as debts at the County Court. This is an automated process, not requiring, or allowing an appearance by any party.

Traffic Management Act 2004 (TMA 2004)

Traffic Penalty Tribunal

Traffic Regulation Order (TRO)

Transport Act 2000

Vehicle Registration Mark (VRM)

Witness Statement

Download this diagram from the PATROL leaflet explaining the parking penalty enforcement process

parking penalty enforcement process diagram