{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-environmental-protection-wet-wipes-containing-plastic-england-regulations-2025/schedule/paragraph-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-environmental-protection-wet-wipes-containing-plastic-england-regulations-2025/schedule/paragraph-1.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2025/9780348274974",
  "legislation_title": "The Environmental Protection (Wet Wipes Containing Plastic) (England) Regulations 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-environmental-protection-wet-wipes-containing-plastic-england-regulations-2025",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Imposition of a fixed monetary penalty or compliance notice",
  "text": "(1) In relation to an offence under Part 2 of these Regulations, a regulator may impose—\n(a) a requirement to pay to the regulator a penalty of £200 (a “fixed monetary penalty”); or\n(b) a requirement to take such steps as the regulator may specify, within such period as it may specify, to secure that the offence does not continue or recur (a “compliance notice”).\n(2) Before doing so the regulator must be satisfied beyond reasonable doubt that the person has committed the offence.\n(3) A requirement under sub-paragraph (1)(a) or (b) may not be imposed on a person on more than one occasion in relation to the same act or omission.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2025/9780348274974/schedule/paragraph/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:38:41.790902+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."
}