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Got a litter fine after housemate used public bin for rubbish

  • 19-11-2009 8:59am
    #1
    waves
    Closed Accounts Posts: 89 ✭✭


    Hi there,
    I got a letter from the local council fining me as they found a bag of rubbish in a public bin and my name and address was in the bag.

    I had been living in a house and the woman I rented from did it.

    I didn't do it.
    I wasn't living in the town at the time - I had moved out a couple of weeks before (the bins are emptied daily so it's not like I had done it and prior to leaving)

    Do I just leave it?
    Do I ask her to pay it ?
    Do I call the council and tell them the scenario?
    Do I wait til it goes further and then explain it if it goes to court?


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  • #2
    Victor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,580 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    waves wrote: »
    Do I call the council and tell them the scenario?

    One of these please Bob.


  • #3
    nuac
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,769 ✭✭✭nuac


    See secton26 of Litter Act 1997.

    Briefly if the contents of the litter gives grounds for reasonable suspicion as to identity of person f rom whom it came, in the absence of evidence to the contrary that person is deemed to be the person who deposited the litter.

    Under Section 2 of the Act deposit has a wide meaning.


  • #4
    Reloc8
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,857 ✭✭✭Reloc8


    Get on to the Council.

    I have to say I think this is ridiculous, assuming we're not talking about a massive stack of rubbish here but a sort of shopper size plastic bag.


  • #5
    time lord
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 606 ✭✭✭time lord


    Each council will have an appeals process.

    With our council you would have to name the other person who did the deed and give a valid address for them.

    If this checked out they would grant a waiver to the fine in nearly all cases.

    Refused appeals might name "Vladimeer Blogs" gone home to Latvia as the guilty one.

    Somtimes the quickest thing to do is get them to pay the fine pronto. Then thats the end of it for ever. No appeal or statements etc.


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