{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-fair-dealing-obligations-pigs-regulations-2025/regulation-22",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-fair-dealing-obligations-pigs-regulations-2025/regulation-22.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2025/9780348270174",
  "legislation_title": "The Fair Dealing Obligations (Pigs) Regulations 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-fair-dealing-obligations-pigs-regulations-2025",
  "path": "regulation/22",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "22",
  "heading": "Notice of intent",
  "text": "(1) Where the Secretary of State proposes to require a business purchaser to pay a civil penalty or pay compensation, the Secretary of State must first give them a notice of intent.\n(2) A “notice of intent” is a written notice including—\n(a) a description of the breach which the Secretary of State considers has been committed;\n(b) the evidence being relied upon;\n(c) the requirement under regulation 20(1) the Secretary of State proposes to impose; and\n(d) a statement that the business purchaser has a right to make representations in accordance with regulation 23 and how to make such representations.\n(3) Before the expiry of 7 days beginning with the day after the day on which the Secretary of State gives a notice of intent, the Secretary of State must send—\n(a) a copy of the notice of intent to the qualifying seller; and\n(b) where the Secretary of State proposes to require the business purchaser to pay compensation to a qualifying seller, a written notice setting out that qualifying seller’s right to make representations in respect of the compensation.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2025/9780348270174/regulation/22",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:39:24.572013+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."
}