{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-producer-responsibility-obligations-packaging-and-packaging-waste-regulations-2024/schedule-13/paragraph-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-producer-responsibility-obligations-packaging-and-packaging-waste-regulations-2024/schedule-13/paragraph-16.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2024/9780348264654",
  "legislation_title": "The Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging and Packaging Waste) Regulations 2024",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-producer-responsibility-obligations-packaging-and-packaging-waste-regulations-2024",
  "path": "schedule/13/paragraph/16",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) If a notice of intent for a variable monetary penalty is served on any person in relation to a contravention which is an offence (“the related offence”), no criminal proceedings may be instituted against that person for the related offence before the expiry of a period of 28 days beginning with the day on which the notice of intent is served.\n(2) If, in relation to a contravention which is an offence, a person has paid a variable monetary penalty, or has discharged liability for a variable monetary penalty within the 28 day period referred to in paragraph (1), that person may not by reason of the contravention be convicted at any time of the related offence, unless the contravention is a continuing 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/2024/9780348264654/schedule/13/paragraph/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:40:28.668627+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."
}