{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/communications-act-2003/schedule-16A/paragraph-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/communications-act-2003/schedule-16A/paragraph-6.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2003/21",
  "legislation_title": "Communications Act 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/communications-act-2003",
  "path": "schedule/16A/paragraph/6",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Recovery of penalties",
  "text": "(1) In England and Wales, a penalty is recoverable—\n(a) if the county court so orders, as if it were payable under an order of that court;\n(b) if the High Court so orders, as if it were payable under an order of that court.\n(2) In Scotland, a penalty may be enforced in the same manner as an extract registered decree arbitral bearing a warrant for execution issued by the sheriff court of any sheriffdom in Scotland.\n(3) In Northern Ireland, a penalty is recoverable—\n(a) if a county court so orders, as if it were payable under an order of that court;\n(b) if the High Court so orders, as if it were payable under an order of that court.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 16A inserted (23.8.2024) by Media Act 2024 (c. 15), s. 55(3)(g), Sch. 10; S.I. 2024/858, reg. 2(1)(z4)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2003/21/schedule/16A/paragraph/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:18:16.154105+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."
}