{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/air-traffic-management-and-unmanned-aircraft-act-2021/schedule-10/paragraph-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/air-traffic-management-and-unmanned-aircraft-act-2021/schedule-10/paragraph-3.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2021/12",
  "legislation_title": "Air Traffic Management and Unmanned Aircraft Act 2021",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/air-traffic-management-and-unmanned-aircraft-act-2021",
  "path": "schedule/10/paragraph/3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) A “fixed penalty notice” is a notice offering the opportunity of the discharge of any liability to conviction of the fixed penalty offence to which the notice relates by payment of a fixed penalty in accordance with this Schedule.\n(2) A fixed penalty notice must—\n(a) give reasonable particulars of the circumstances alleged to constitute the fixed penalty offence;\n(b) state the period during which (because of paragraph 4) proceedings will not be instituted for the offence;\n(c) specify the amount of the fixed penalty;\n(d) state the name and address of the person to whom the fixed penalty may be paid;\n(e) specify permissible methods of payment (which may include payment by cash);\n(f) specify permissible means by which a payment may be made (which may include payment by post).\n(3) A fixed penalty notice may specify two amounts under sub-paragraph (2)(c) and specify that, if the lower of those amounts is paid within a specified period of not more than 14 days, that is the amount of the fixed penalty.\n(4) Where a fixed penalty notice specifies that payment of a fixed penalty may be made by post using a specified method of payment—\n(a) payment may be made by pre-paying and posting to the person whose name is stated under sub-paragraph (2)(d), at the stated address, a letter containing the amount of the penalty that is paid by the specified method;\n(b) where that is done, payment is regarded as having been made at the time at which that letter would be delivered in the ordinary course of post.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 10 para. 3 in force at 29.4.2021 for specified purposes, see s. 21(1)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "Sch. 10 para. 3 in force at 29.6.2021 in so far as not already in force by S.I. 2021/748, reg. 2(l)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2021/12/schedule/10/paragraph/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:58:52.834529+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}