Article 2 The appropriate amount
Subject to paragraph (2), the appropriate amount of a financial penalty deposit shall be—
in relation to a fixed penalty offence for which a person has been given a fixed penalty notice or handed a conditional offer, the amount indicated in relation to that offence in the third column of Schedule 1;
in relation to a graduated fixed penalty offence for which a person has been given a fixed penalty notice or handed a conditional offer, the amount indicated in relation to that offence in Schedule 2, by reference to [the circumstances of the offence, those being] the nature of the contravention and, where specified, its seriousness; and
in relation to an offence for which a person has been given notification that it appears likely that proceedings will be brought against him, £300.
The appropriate amount shall not, in respect of any single occasion on which more than one financial penalty deposit requirement has been imposed, exceed £900.