{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/clean-heat-market-mechanism-regulations-2025/regulation-38",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/clean-heat-market-mechanism-regulations-2025/regulation-38.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2025/81",
  "legislation_title": "The Clean Heat Market Mechanism Regulations 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/clean-heat-market-mechanism-regulations-2025",
  "path": "regulation/38",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "38",
  "heading": "Waiver or modification of certain civil penalties",
  "text": "(1) Except in the case of a penalty which must be imposed under regulation 41 (failure to notify fossil fuel boiler sales) or 45 (failure to make a payment), where the administrator considers appropriate, the administrator may—\n(a) waive a penalty;\n(b) allow additional time to pay a financial penalty;\n(c) impose a lower financial penalty or substitute a lower or higher financial penalty where one has already been imposed; or\n(d) modify the application of a publication penalty.\n(2) Where the administrator ceases to be satisfied that a person is liable for a penalty, or where there is an error in a penalty notice, the administrator may serve a further notice on that person to withdraw or correct the penalty notice.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 38 in force at 1.4.2025, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/81/regulation/38",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:21:18.707617+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."
}