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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-penalties-for-disorderly-behaviour-amendment-of-minimum-age-order-2004/article-3",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2004/0110495195",
  "legislation_title": "The Penalties for Disorderly Behaviour (Amendment of Minimum Age) Order 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-penalties-for-disorderly-behaviour-amendment-of-minimum-age-order-2004",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Notification of parent or guardian",
  "text": "(1) The chief officer of police must notify such parent or guardian of a young penalty recipient as he thinks fit of the giving of the penalty notice concerned.\n(2) A notification under paragraph (1) must be in writing and must include a copy of the penalty notice.\n(3) A notification under paragraph (1) may be served –\n(a) by giving it to the parent or guardian personally; or\n(b) by sending it to the parent or guardian at his usual or last-known address by first-class post.\n(4) A notification under paragraph (1) must be served before the end of the period of 28 days beginning with the date on which the penalty notice was given.\n(5) Where a notification under paragraph (1) is sent to the parent or guardian by first-class post, service shall be deemed to have been effected on the second day after posting.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2004/0110495195/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:23:40.026834+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."
}