Private Clamp fees. Maximum?

CardinalJ

Hi,

Vehicle clamping Act 2015 states the maximum fee, unless prescribed, is €100. Can a private clamping company charge €120?

Extract below.

Thanks.


Maximum clamp release and relocation charges - non-statutory clamping places

15. (1) The NTA may prescribe the maximum charges that may be imposed in non-statutory clamping places in respect of—

(a) the removal of a clamp from a wrongfully parked vehicle, and

(b) the relocation of a wrongfully parked vehicle.

(2) Where no charge stands prescribed under paragraph (a) or (b) of subsection (1) the maximum charge that may be imposed in a non-statutory clamping place—

(a) in respect of a clamp release charge, is €100, and

(b) in respect of a relocation charge, is €50,

or such other amounts as stand, for the time being, prescribed by the Minister in lieu of the charge, after consultation with the NTA.

hullaballoo

That Act hasn't been commenced yet.

The minister is apparently awaiting some internal reports or something. This was on the news yesterday.

CardinalJ

hullaballoo wrote: »

That Act hasn't been commenced yet.

The minister is apparently awaiting some internal reports or something. This was on the news yesterday.

B******S!!

I've been clamped while parked outside a designated spot in the car park of my apartment complex. Cars have parked there for years with no trouble, warnings, letters from management company etc. Landlord even told be about it as a spot when I started renting.

With that avenue gone, my current thinking is that.

1) The signage re clamping is on the entrance ramp to the complex and at a height/angle that it is too difficult to read from a car.

2) It is an unsafe place to read it. Standing on a ramp in front of a blind bend not a safe place to reasonable expect people to stand to read it.

Not sure how far I'd get with any of this given the private clamping companies run the appeals process.

Cheers.

CardinalJ

I already rang them up screaming blue murder about it so they have my mobile number, a contract with the management co and could figure out who I am pretty easy.

Im not worried abut them coming after me, its the management company.

IRAC War

Angle grinders, worrying about the maximum fee - how about just parking the car in the proper place?

OldMrBrennan83

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IRAC War

Patww79 wrote: »

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I dunno, I just must have one of those cars having never been clamped and frequently parking in private car parks around Dublin.

Grolschevik

Patww79 wrote:

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I've never been clamped in all my years of driving, the last eight of which I've been living in a development that utilises clampers, just by following IRAC War's simple advice.

CardinalJ

Grolschevik wrote: »

I've never been clamped in all my years of driving, the last eight of which I've been living in a development that utilises clampers, just by following IRAC War's simple advice.

Happy for you.

I live in a development where most apartment's have two cars, a single allocated space which we use, and no alternatives, except areas that have always been used by residents with no issues/warnings over the last few years.

Perhaps you are in a different situation, perhaps you're not. With respect, your blissful clamp free existence wasn't why I started the thread.

Grolschevik

CardinalJ wrote:

I live in a development where most apartment's have two cars, a single allocated space which we use, and no alternatives, except areas that have always been used by residents with no issues/warnings over the last few years.

I'm assuming you rent. Have you asked your landlord? As someone mentioned on your other thread, clamping is often brought in as a measure to enforce the payment of management fees. Could your landlord be in default of these? Perhaps he received notice of the impending clamping regime and failed to notify you.

If you own, then you certainly should have received notice.

CardinalJ

Grolschevik wrote: »

I'm assuming you rent. Have you asked your landlord? As someone mentioned on your other thread, clamping is often brought in as a measure to enforce the payment of management fees. Could your landlord be in default of these? Perhaps he received notice of the impending clamping regime and failed to notify you.

If you own, then you certainly should have received notice.

They couldn't know which car was mine and clamped a heap of other people, so it's not related to fees.

I'm more than likely just going to have to pay it as I don't want to damage the clamp. My faith in the appeals process is zero.

I'll get on to the management company in the morning about it. I spoke to a clamper who was unlocking one of the cars earlier and he said someone in the management company called them about it. Why they couldn't leave a note on my car is beyond me. You'll have to take my word that I've never had or seen a note on any car parked there before.

Grolschevik

I don't think they'd put a note on the cars. More likely to be a letter pinned in the communal areas or a letter to the unit owner.

These undesignated spots. Are they marked or numbered in any way? I too am wondering why parking there has suddenly become an issue. Presumably someone somewhere feels proprietorial towards them.

Fred Swanson

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Pat Mustard

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