{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/architects-act-1997/section-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/architects-act-1997/section-16.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1997/22",
  "legislation_title": "Architects Act 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/architects-act-1997",
  "path": "section/16",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Penalty orders.",
  "text": "(1) Where a penalty order is made in relation to a registered person, he shall pay to the Board the sum specified in the order.\n(2) A penalty order may not specify a sum exceeding the amount which, at the relevant time, is the amount specified as level 4 on the standard scale of fines for summary offences.\nIn this subsection “the relevant time” means—\n(a) in a case within subsection (1)(a) of section 15, the time of the conduct or incompetence of which the registered person is found guilty; and\n(b) in a case within subsection (1)(b) of that section, the time when he committed the criminal offence of which he has been convicted.\n(3) A penalty order shall specify the period within which the sum specified in it is to be paid.\n(4) If the person in relation to whom a penalty order is made does not pay the sum specified in the order within the period so specified, the Professional Conduct Committee may make a suspension order or an erasure order in relation to him.\n(5) The Board shall pay into the Consolidated Fund any sum paid under a penalty order.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1997/22/section/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:27:17.182057+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."
}