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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-marine-conservation-fixed-monetary-penalties-order-northern-ireland-2015/article-4",
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  "legislation": "nidsr/2015/9780337997969",
  "legislation_title": "The Marine Conservation (Fixed Monetary Penalties) Order (Northern Ireland) 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-marine-conservation-fixed-monetary-penalties-order-northern-ireland-2015",
  "path": "article/4",
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  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Notice of intent",
  "text": "(1) Where the Department proposes to impose a fixed monetary penalty on a person, it must serve a written notice of intent on that person.\n(2) A notice of intent must—\n(a) state the amount of the penalty;\n(b) offer the person the opportunity to discharge their liability to the penalty by payment of 50% of the amount of the penalty within a period of 28 days beginning with the date on which the notice of intent is served;\n(c) include information as to—\n(i) the grounds for the proposal to impose the fixed monetary penalty;\n(ii) the effect of payment of the sum specified in Article 5;\n(iii) the right to make representations and objections conferred by Article 6;\n(iv) the period within which representations and objections may be made by virtue of Article 6;\n(v) the circumstances in which the Department may not impose the fixed monetary penalty;\n(vi) the period within which liability to the fixed monetary penalty may be discharged by virtue of Article 5;\n(vii) the period within which representations and objections may be made; and\n(viii) how payment may be made.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nidsr/2015/9780337997969/article/4",
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  },
  "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."
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