{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/control-of-mercury-enforcement-regulations-2017/regulation-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/control-of-mercury-enforcement-regulations-2017/regulation-16.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2017/1200",
  "legislation_title": "The Control of Mercury (Enforcement) Regulations 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/control-of-mercury-enforcement-regulations-2017",
  "path": "regulation/16",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Multiple enforcement",
  "text": "(1) An enforcing authority may give (whether or not at the same time)—\n(a) an enforcement notice, and\n(b) a civil penalty notice,\nto the same person in respect of the same failure to comply with a relevant provision.\n(2) An enforcing authority must not (except in the circumstances described in paragraph (3)) give a civil penalty notice under regulation 10(3) to the same person more than once for the same failure.\n(3) If a civil penalty notice is given to a person under regulation 10(3) but subsequently withdrawn, the enforcing authority may give a further civil penalty notice to the person for the failure described in the original notice.\n(4) An enforcing authority must not (except in the circumstances described in paragraph (5)) give a civil penalty notice under regulation 10(4) to the same person more than once for the same failure.\n(5) If a civil penalty notice is given to a person under regulation 10(4) but subsequently withdrawn, the enforcing authority may give a further civil penalty notice to the person for the failure described in the original notice.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2017/1200/regulation/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:05:24.577422+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."
}