Where –

(a) an offence against this Act or the Vehicle and Traffic Act 1999 is detected by a photographic detection device; and

(b) the driver of the vehicle at the relevant time was not the registered operator of the vehicle –

a complaint in respect of that offence may, notwithstanding section 26 of the Justices Act 1959 , be laid at any time within 6 months after the date on which the identity of the driver is established.