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Impounding: how will it operate?
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An authorised person, normally a Traffic Commissioner, will serve a notice to the vehicle owner concerned. If found to be operating Illegally, the owner is given the notice form and the vehicle is towed away.
The owner then has 21 days in which to make a written representation to the TC.
The applicant may then request a public hearing, which is normally held within 10 days of him receiving the notice.
After the hearing a decision is made within three days, and the vehicle is either returned or declared to be operating illegally.
If the owner disagrees with the decision he can appeal to the Transport Tribunal, and then the Court of Appeal and the High Court—as Is normal in the legal process.
An owner whose vehicle is impounded gets back the auction price of his vehicle, less costs and auctioneer's expenses— usually leaving him with far less than the value of the vehicle itself.