{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/data-protection-act-2018/schedule-16/paragraph-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/data-protection-act-2018/schedule-16/paragraph-7.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2018/12",
  "legislation_title": "Data Protection Act 2018",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/data-protection-act-2018",
  "path": "schedule/16/paragraph/7",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) The Commission may vary a penalty notice by giving written notice (a “penalty variation notice”) to the person to whom it was given.\n(2) A penalty variation notice must specify—\n(a) the penalty notice concerned, and\n(b) how it is varied.\n(3) A penalty variation notice may not—\n(a) reduce the period for payment of the penalty;\n(b) increase the amount of the penalty;\n(c) otherwise vary the penalty notice to the detriment of the person to whom it was given.\n(4) If—\n(a) a penalty variation notice reduces the amount of the penalty, and\n(b) when that notice is given, an amount has already been paid that exceeds the amount of the reduced penalty,\nthe Commission must repay the excess.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in Sch. 16 para. 7(1) substituted (30.9.2026) by The Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provision) Regulations 2026 (S.I. 2026/386), reg. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 23(2)(3); S.I. 2026/1015, reg. 2(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in Sch. 16 para. 7(4) substituted (30.9.2026) by The Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provision) Regulations 2026 (S.I. 2026/386), reg. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 23(2)(3); S.I. 2026/1015, reg. 2(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Sch. 16 applied (with modifications) by S.I. 2016/696, Sch. 2 (as substituted (25.5.2018) by Data Protection Act 2018 (c. 12), s. 212(1), Sch. 19 para. 406 (with ss. 117, 209, 210); S.I. 2018/625, reg. 2(1)(g) (with reg. 4))"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 16 para. 7 in force at 25.5.2018 by S.I. 2018/625, reg. 2(1)(f)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2018/12/schedule/16/paragraph/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:04:55.804064+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."
}