{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-fair-dealing-obligations-pigs-regulations-2025/regulation-24",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-fair-dealing-obligations-pigs-regulations-2025/regulation-24.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/24",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "24",
  "heading": "Notice of decision",
  "text": "(1) After the expiry of both periods within which the business purchaser and qualifying seller may make representations under regulation 23, the Secretary of State must decide whether to impose a requirement under regulation 20(1).\n(2) Where the Secretary of State decides to impose a requirement, it may be that set out in the notice of intent, or a different requirement.\n(3) A business purchaser required to pay a civil penalty or pay compensation under regulation 20(1) must do so within 28 days of receiving a notice of decision under paragraph (4).\n(4) Where the Secretary of State makes a decision under paragraph (1), the Secretary of State must give a written notice (a “notice of decision”) to the business purchaser setting out—\n(a) where the decision is to impose a requirement under regulation 20(1)—\n(i) the requirement being imposed;\n(ii) the reasons for imposing the requirement;\n(iii) the amount to be paid by the business purchaser in respect of each requirement imposed under regulation 20(1);\n(iv) an explanation as to how the amount has been calculated;\n(v) how payment may be made;\n(vi) that payment is due within 28 days of the receipt of the notice of decision;\n(vii) information about the right to appeal against the imposition of a requirement under regulation 25; and\n(viii) where the Secretary of State decides to impose a civil penalty, that the Secretary of State is entitled to recover any unpaid civil penalty as a debt; or\n(b) where the decision is not to impose a requirement under regulation 20(1)—\n(i) that decision; and\n(ii) the reasons for reaching the decision.\n(5) Before the expiry of 7 days beginning with the day after the day on which the Secretary of State gives a notice of decision, the Secretary of State must send a copy of the notice to the qualifying seller.\n(6) Where the Secretary of State—\n(a) requires the business purchaser to pay compensation to a qualifying seller; or\n(b) decides not to impose a requirement under regulation 20(1) on the business purchaser,\nthe Secretary of State must include with the copy of the notice of decision under paragraph (5) a written notice setting out the qualifying seller’s right to appeal under regulation 25(2).",
  "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/24",
    "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."
}