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01: Parked in a restricted street during prescribed hours.
02: Parked or loading/unloading in a restricted street where waiting and loading/unloading restrictions are in force, parked where there is a yellow line AND yellow markings on the kerb.
04: Parked in a meter bay when penalty time is indicated. You must move your car before the time purchased has expired.
05: Parked after the expiry of paid for time at a pay and display bay. You must move your car before the pay and display ticket has expired.
06: Parked without clearly displaying a valid pay and display ticket. The pay and display ticket must be clearly displayed on the windscreen.
07: Parked with payment made to extend the stay beyond the initial time (Meter Feeding).
08: Parked at an out of order meter during controlled hours. If a meter shows out of order you are not permitted to park there.
09: Parked displaying multiple pay and display tickets where prohibited.
15: Parked in a resident parking space without clearly displaying a valid resident parking permit.
16: Parked in a permit space without displaying a valid permit.
20: Parked in a loading gap marked by a yellow line between two spaces.
21: Parked in a suspended bay/ space or part of a bay/space.
22: Re-parked in the same parking space within 1 hour of leaving.
23: Parked in a parking space or area not designated for that class of vehicle.
24: Not parked correctly within the markings of a bay or space.
25: Parked in a loading bay during restricted hours without loading.
26: Vehicle parked more than 50cm from the kerb, and not then within a designated parking space.
27: Parked across a dropped footway.
30: Parked for longer than permitted.
31: Entering and stopping in a box junction when prohibited
32 (d,t,w): Failing to drive in the direction shown by the arrow on a blue sign
33 (b,c,e,f,g,h,i,k,s,q): Using a route restricted to certain vehicles
34 (see 33): Vehicle seen contravening a bus lane.
37: Failing to comply with a give way to oncoming vehicles sign
40: Parked in a designated disabled persons parking space without clearly displaying a valid disability badge.
45: Parked in a taxi rank.
47: Parked on a restricted bus stop / stand.
48: Stopped in a restricted area outside of a school.
50 (l,r,u): Failing to comply with a sign indicating a prohibited turn
51: Failing to comply with a no entry sign
52 (g,m,s,v,x): Failing to comply with a sign indicating a prohibition on certain types of vehicles
53: Failing to comply with a sign indicating a restriction on vehicles entering a pedestrian zone
55: A commercial vehicle parked in a restricted street, in contravention of the over night waiting van.
62: Parked with one or more wheels on any part of an urban road other than the carriageway (footpath parking).
82: Parked after expiry of time paid for in a pay and display car park.
83: Parked in a pay and display car park, without clearly displaying a valid pay and display ticket.
99: Stopped on a pedestrian crossing and/or area marked by zigzags.
no code currently allocated: Failing to stop at a stop line
 

Failing to comply with a no entry sign

Contravention code 51:
Failing to comply with a no entry sign.

 

Local authorities are now enforcing this contravention using CCTV enforcement.

Sample sign:

 

How to have your penalty charge notice (PCN) for this moving traffic contravention cancelled.

Before checking the specific information relating to this offence you will need to check the following general information.

General advice for all moving traffic contraventions

What a penalty charge notice (PCN) must contain

Statutory grounds for appeal

 

Specific grounds of appeal for this contravention

As the contravention is that of “failing to comply with a no entry sign,” it is important to remember that in order to prove this contravention that the enforcing authority must actually show you passing the sign. It is not sufficient to simply show you in or entering a one way street. You can ask to see the video or photographic evidence.

The no entry signs must be placed on each side of the road unless the road is less than 5 meters wide. It is very rare that a road is less than 5 meters wide. If there is only one sign and the road was not less than 5 metes wide then the contravention is not enforceable

Are the signs the correct size (see diagrams above)

Were there any other signs or road markings that contradict the no entry restriction? For example we have seen on occasion a road signed as no entry but the road markings show it as a 2 way road.

In one case there were bollards along the middle of the road with arrows warning motorists to pass to the left of the bollards even through the road was one way against the arrows.

If there are restrictions at certain times were times stated on the Penalty charge notice (PCN) actually the same as on the signs.

 

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