# The Single Use Carrier Bags Charges (England) Order 2015, Article 13: Power to require publicity


(1) An administrator may give a publicity notice to a seller on whom a civil sanction has been imposed.
(2) A publicity notice means a notice requiring the seller to publicise—
(a) the fact that a civil sanction has been imposed;
(b) the type of civil sanction;
(c) the grounds on which the sanction was imposed;
(d) if the sanction was a fixed or variable monetary penalty, the amount of that penalty;
(e) if the sanction was a non-monetary discretionary requirement, the nature of the requirement in question.
(3) A publicity notice must—
(a) specify the manner of publication required;
(b) specify the time for compliance with the notice;
(c) require the seller to provide evidence of compliance with the notice within a time specified in the notice.
(4) If a seller fails to comply with a publicity notice within the time specified under paragraph (3)(b), the administrator may—
(a) publicise the information;
(b) recover the costs of doing so from the seller.
(5) Where an administrator publicises information under paragraph (4)(a), it must do so in a way it considers most likely to bring the information to the attention of members of the public in its area.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2015/9780111127735/article/13 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/draft-single-use-carrier-bags-charges-england-order-2015/article-13
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