{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-dog-fouling-fixed-penalty-scotland-order-2016/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-dog-fouling-fixed-penalty-scotland-order-2016/note.json",
  "legislation": "sdsi/2016/9780111030349",
  "legislation_title": "The Dog Fouling (Fixed Penalty) (Scotland) Order 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-dog-fouling-fixed-penalty-scotland-order-2016",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order prescribes the amount of the fixed penalty which is payable if a fixed penalty notice has been issued under section 5 of the Dog Fouling (Scotland) Act 2003. The current amount is set in section 9(2) of the 2003 Act and is equivalent to 20 per cent of level 1 on the Standard Scale. This amount is currently £40. This Order prescribes a new amount which is 40 per cent of level 1 on the standard scale. At the time of making this Order this amount is £80.\nThe new amount will only apply to fixed penalties issued on or after 1st April 2016.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/sdsi/2016/9780111030349/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:34:37.966619+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."
}