{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-clean-heat-market-mechanism-regulations-2024/regulation-37",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-clean-heat-market-mechanism-regulations-2024/regulation-37.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2024/9780348266047",
  "legislation_title": "The Clean Heat Market Mechanism Regulations 2024",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-clean-heat-market-mechanism-regulations-2024",
  "path": "regulation/37",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "37",
  "heading": "Civil penalties: general",
  "text": "(1) Where the administrator considers that a scheme participant or a near-threshold supplier is liable to a civil penalty under regulation 41 (failure to notify fossil fuel boiler sales) or that a scheme participant is liable to a civil penalty under regulation 45 (failure to make a payment), the administrator must impose a civil penalty on the scheme participant or near-threshold supplier, as the case may be.\n(2) Where the administrator considers that a person is liable to a civil penalty under any other provision of this Part, the administrator may impose a civil penalty on the person.\n(3) A civil penalty is imposed on a person by giving a notice (referred to in this Part as a “penalty notice”) to the person.\n(4) A penalty notice must set out—\n(a) the grounds for liability;\n(b) the nature of the penalty;\n(c) the amount of any financial penalty, including how the amount is calculated and the amount of any accruing daily financial penalty;\n(d) the date by which any financial penalty must be paid, which must not be less than 28 days after the day on which the notice is given;\n(e) the person to whom payment of a financial penalty must be made;\n(f) how payment of a financial penalty may be made;\n(g) information about rights of appeal.\n(5) The person to whom a penalty notice is given must pay any financial penalty set out in the notice to the person indicated in the notice on or before the due date.\n(6) A financial penalty, if unpaid, is recoverable by the administrator—\n(a) as a civil debt; or\n(b) on the order of a court, as if payable under a court order.\n(7) The administrator must pay any financial penalty received into the Consolidated Fund.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2024/9780348266047/regulation/37",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:40:11.262722+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."
}