This was stipulated in a letter recently sent to all those affected. And now some of them have labelled the length of time they have to wait as 'disgusting' and 'out of order'.
In January a landmark case at Totnes saw four people who had been convicted of speeding on the A379 outside Starcross have their cases quashed. The judge ruled that the speed signage did not comply with exact requirement; therefore the speed limit was void.
This opened the appeal floodgates for hundreds, if not thousands, of motorists who received penalty points and fines in the same area.
Sam Lomas, a Dawlish resident who received a fine last year, says that the Devon and Cornwall Safety Camera Partnership demanded her original £60 fine be paid within 28 days. Now that they have been proved to be in the wrong, she feels they should pay up straight away.
Mrs Lomas said: 'It makes me cross. When you get caught speeding you have to pay the fine in 28 days, yet they get six months to pay it back. 'At the end of the day they have wrongly taken money from me so why should they be let off? 'I just think it's appalling for this to take so long and the partnership seem to be dragging it out. £60 is a lot of money, to me and seeing that it's not theirs to keep any more, why can't they just give it back. 'It's disgusting.'
Another resident, Lindsey LeVaul-Grimwood, was caught in the same place and feels that the six months the partnership will take to refund her is 'out of order'.
'We have to pay the fines promptly, so why does it take such a along time for them to return it?' she said.
At the time of going to press the Devon and Cornwall Safety Camera Partnership was not available for comment.