can i be fined twice for the same offence?

Question

Unfortunatly I mixed the date up for renewal of my road fund licence and recieved a £60 fixed penalty notice which I paid. I have now had a demand for another £50 from D.V.L.A. Is this right as I am being fined twice for the same offence.

Answer 1

You can be fined once for the original offense, and separately as a penalty for failing to pay the original fine on time.

Answer 2

The fixed penalty notice was issued by the police for the offence commonly known as "fail to display" and it would have related to a specific occasion when your car was observed with an out of date tax disc. It is, therefore, an unfortunate thing that DVLA is tackling you too, but you are being penalised here for not having renewed your licence in time. The licence must have been well out of date, as normally you would be allowed a couple of weeks' grace to cover postal delays, etc. You can try writing to DVLA and explaining what happened, just in case they are disposed to be kind to you, but on the face of it, yes, these are separate offences.

Answer 3

No you cant be fined for the same offence twice but it sounds like this is two seperate offences.You have been dealt with by by fixed penalty and it sounds like you didnt immediately tax your car which is a seperate offence.Its like a parking ticket if you get one then dont move your car you can get another the next day and so on because you continue committing the offence the same with tax if you are using your car and get done every time a police officer sees it in use on a road they can do you again unlike a crime which is one offence and can you can only be done for it once a traffic involving tax or documents or faults on a car can be repeatedly dealt with if you dont put it right and continue using the car.

Answer 4

I'm not sure if i understand exactly what happened by I'll try. Suppose you were required to renew the license on Jan 15. You paid a penalty on, lets say Jan 20. Did you renew the license? If not, continuing to have an expired license is a NEW violation.

Note: Your question appears to originate in the UK and I am in the US. Even under US law, my answer is a guess.

Answer 5

This looks a specifically English problem. For some reason, the English look to imagine that they ought to no longer be stuck rushing. that's as if they experience that it is not a foul issue to do. This outcomes from the authorities treating using offences as a attitude to raising taxes. regrettably the stupid drivers do no longer recognize that rushing is risky and anti-social, and that in the journey that all of them drove 10 mph decrease than the reduce, rushing fines may be banned because it would not pay and the country may grind to a halt.

Answer 6

I think you can be fined twice, but you can't go to trial for the same crime twice-double jeopardy. The law says that if you are tried and you are innocent of your crime then you can' t be tried again for the same thing. In other words if you go to trial for a murder, then a while later you shoot someone it won't matter. That is unless you get caught under technicalities.

Answer 7

It could be the difference between when it ran out and when it was renewed. The DVLA do not issue summons, they are passed to the police for prosecution.

Answer 8

You're being fined a late fee, not the original penalty.

Answer 9

get intouch with the dvla and ask them if you still have to pay the £50 giving that you have paid a fine already of £60.

Answer 10

They should not be able to fine your twice for the same incident!
People are saying yes as in you can get fined for the same crime but different incidents but can not charge twice for the same incident That's double jeopardy