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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/animals-low-welfare-activities-abroad-act-2023/schedule/paragraph-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/animals-low-welfare-activities-abroad-act-2023/schedule/paragraph-2.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2023/45",
  "legislation_title": "Animals (Low-Welfare Activities Abroad) Act 2023",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/animals-low-welfare-activities-abroad-act-2023",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Imposition of monetary penalties",
  "text": "(1) Where an enforcement authority is satisfied beyond reasonable doubt that a person has committed an offence under section 1 or 2 in the authority’s area, the authority may impose a monetary penalty on the person.\n(2) In this Schedule “monetary penalty” means a requirement to pay the enforcement authority a penalty of an amount determined by the authority.\n(3) In Northern Ireland, the amount of the penalty may not exceed an amount equivalent to level 5 on the standard scale.",
  "extent": "E+W+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. para. 2 in force at 18.11.2023, see s. 7(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2023/45/schedule/paragraph/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:51:52.498838+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."
}