The contravention is entering a box junction when your exit is not clear.

If it was, and you subsequently get stuck in the box, there is no contravention.
And the box itself may not be correct.
The PCN may not be correct.
You must not enter the box until your exit road or lane is clear. However, you may
enter the box and wait when you want to turn right, and are only stopped from
doing so by oncoming traffic, or by other vehicles waiting to turn right.
does not conform to the Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions 2003 (TSRGD
2003). If the road marking is not of the prescribed size, colour and type (Road Traffic Act
1998 s36 (1) (a)) then it does not constitute a legal road sign, and is therefore unenforceable.
This principle was upheld in the allowed PATAS Fielden v TFL (2060436860) and Greene v
LB Camden (Ref: MV0003CD01).
Box Junctions markings are prescribed in TSRGD 2003 Diagrams 1043 and 1044 (attached
to this letter for your perusal).
I also have attached a few photographs of the enforcement site showing the Yellow Box
Junction for comparative purposes. The diagrams prescribed by TSRGD 2003 explicitly
indicate that the corners of the box must run to the kerb line and yet the ones at the
enforcement site do not!

In the PATAS case D. Joseph v TFL (2110069641) - Adjudicator Andrew Harman stated: The
allegation in this case is that this vehicle entered and stopped in a box junction when
prohibited. The appellant appeared before me today. I have examined the box junction's
layout as shown in the authority's CCTV footage of the incident and library photograph of the
location. The top left hand corner of the box does not meet the kerb line and I am not
therefore satisfied in the absence of any special authorisation that this box is compliant with
either diagram 1043 or 1044 of The Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions 2002.
The penalty charge is therefore unenforceable. The appeal is accordingly allowed. A similar
decision was reached in case K. Andrew v TFL (2110138201).

4. The Information Commissioners Office CCTV code of practice, chapter 9, explicitly states
that signs should be used to warn people where CCTV is in use. They confirmed that under
the Data Protection Act signage is compulsory. The Code of Practice for Operation of
CCTV Enforcement Cameras (Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984, Road Traffic Act 1991,
Traffic Management Act 2004) provides that camera enforcement signs have to be displayed
clearly where a system is in operation.
2.3.5 Relevant camera enforcement signs should be displayed in areas where the system
operates. The signs will not define the field of view of the cameras but will advise that CCTV
camera enforcement is taking place in the area. There were no such signs at or approaching
the junction of Forest Road / Kingsley Road, E17, a fact alone has precedence for invalidating
a PCN (case Rachel Johnson v Wirral & Mr Bruce Edgar Scott v TFL 2110501141) as the
CCTV enforcement system in use for this box does not abide to the Code of Practice for
Operation of CCTV Enforcement Cameras.

5. The contravention code 31 Entering and stopping in a box junction when prohibited is
incorrect. The London Councils Transport and Environment Committee (TEC) has recently
approved a number of changes to the contravention code list used by London Local
authorities. The latest version of the contravention code list must be used from 1st April 2014.
Given that the alleged contravention was captured by a CCTV the correct code as per the

Road Traffic Act 1991 and the London Councils Standard PCN Codes version 6.7 (2014)
regulations is 31J. Therefore the PCN is non-compliant.

The law:
no person shall cause a vehicle to enter the box junction so that the vehicle has to stop within
the box junction due to the presence of stationary vehicles.
The way I would read that would be to say that the offence is committed if when
entering the box there were stationary vehicles present that caused the vehicle
entering to stop within the box. Which in your photo example is not the case.