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A
ticket displayed on the dash rather than the windscreen (NW05011)
The appellant, issued with a PCN for failing to display
a valid pay-and-display ticket in a car park, appealed on
the ground that their ticket had been displayed and that the
Parking Attendant could have seen it if they had inspected
the dash as well as the windows. The Adjudicator pointed out
that, although the bylaw required a ticket to be "attached"
to the windscreen, the tickets issued from the machine were
not adhesive and could not be "attached" but had to be displayed
on the dash. He further noted that, while the drafting of
the bylaw referred exclusively to tickets being "paid for"
by placing coins into a machine, signs in the car park indicated
that parking was in fact free for the first two hours. The
Adjudicator ruled that, as a result, the appellant's "apparent"
failure to display a ticket for a period of free parking did
not mean that a contravention had occurred. The appeal was allowed.
