{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-vehicle-emissions-trading-schemes-order-2023/article-96",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-vehicle-emissions-trading-schemes-order-2023/article-96.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2023/9780348252453",
  "legislation_title": "The Vehicle Emissions Trading Schemes Order 2023",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-vehicle-emissions-trading-schemes-order-2023",
  "path": "article/96",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "96",
  "heading": "Waiver and modification of civil penalties",
  "text": "(1) Where the administrator considers appropriate, the administrator may—\n(a) waive a penalty;\n(b) allow additional time to pay a financial penalty;\n(c) impose a lower financial penalty than the amount provided for in articles 97 to 106 or substitute such a lower financial penalty where one has already been imposed; or\n(d) modify the application of a publication or a block.\n(2) Where at any time before a financial penalty is due to be paid the administrator ceases to be satisfied that the person is liable for that penalty, the administrator may serve a further notice on that person to—\n(a) withdraw the penalty notice; or\n(b) modify the penalty notice by substituting a lower penalty.\n(3) Before exercising a power in this article, the administrator must consult the relevant national authorities.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "See section 47 of the Climate Change Act 2008 for the meaning of “relevant national authorities”."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2023/9780348252453/article/96",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:42:41.441882+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."
}