Section 24 Failure to comply with content removal notice or decision notice: civil penaltiesI1
United Kingdom Not yet in force
Subsection (2) applies where—
a content removal notice has been given to a service provider, or to both a service provider and the provider’s content manager, in accordance with section 21, and
the initial 48-hour period has expired without the notice having been complied with or a review notice having been given.
A senior authorised officer of the issuing force may give a penalty notice—
to the service provider, or
if the provider’s content manager also received the content removal notice, to the content manager or to both of them.
A senior authorised officer of the issuing force may give a penalty notice—
to the service provider, or
if the provider’s content manager also received the decision notice, to the content manager or to both of them.
In this section a “penalty notice” means a notice requiring its recipient to pay a penalty—
where the recipient is a service provider, of an amount not exceeding £60,000;
where the recipient is a service provider’s content manager, of an amount not exceeding £10,000.
In order to take account of changes in the value of money the Secretary of State may by regulations substitute another sum for a sum for the time being specified in subsection (5).
See Schedule 4 for further provision in connection with penalty notices given under this section.
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S. 24 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 255(1)