Bob Llewelyn
You need to take proper legal advise,
pepipoo is a good place for that - they have a NIP advice section and as you have already found a good forum to ask this question there.
I am not a lawyer and cannot advise you. The following are a few of my own thoughts on the matter only.
As suggested the precise (potentially inappropriate) wording may not relinquish you of the required responsibility to respond. I cannot see that this will negate you, or the driver too, of the alleged offence.
The Court will expect you respond as Fisherman has so advised already. The 14 day rule is that they need to provide you with the NIP which has been done to you. It is your responsibility as I understand it, to notify the appropriate authority, as to who you consider the driver may be. I would also notify the person to whom I think was driving too so that they have the earliest notification of the alleged offence.
Bob Llewelyn wrote:
I have received a NOTICE OF INTENDED PROSECUTION for travelling at 40mph in a 30mph speed limit. I was not driving. The paragraph giving instructions on what to do if I was not driving contains a grammatical mistake which makes it nonsense:
"IF YOU WERE NOT THE DRIVER of the vehicle at the time of the alleged offence and you are required to give any information in your power which may lead to the driver's identification by completing AND SIGNING Section B as appropriate overleaf."
I agree that this is very odd wording. It will be about precision in Law and whether it is sufficient to provide alleged Notification, I believe.