Some charges stay

Press, Volume CX, Issue 32406, 19 September 1970, Page 3

Some charges stay

(N.Z. Press Association) AUCKLAND, Sept. 18. The Auckland City Council is dropping all charges brought under defective parking infringement notices. But the Ministry of Transport is not following suit About 300 cases were involved in the Auckland City Council area. But the number of cases brought before the courts by the Ministry of Transport between the time of a Christchurch magistrate’s decision declaring the infringement notice defective and

the time of amendment by the Minister of Transport would be relatively small. A spokesman said: “In the tens, not the hundreds.” Ministry policy was that where the defective notices were already before the court the charges laid under the old notice would be withdrawn and fresh charges laid under the amended notice. Parking infringement notices throughout New Zealand have now been amended, after the pointing out by Mr P. L. Molineaux,

S.M., of a legal technicality. The Auckland City Council traffic superintendent (Mr N. Lake) emphasised today that the parking “ticket” issued by a traffic officer and placed on a car was not in question. The “parking infringement notice” was part of the follow-up administrative procedure issued no later than 14 days after the parking infringement warning the driver that prosecution will follow if the required fee is not paid within a specified time.