{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-act-1996/schedule-31A/paragraph-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-act-1996/schedule-31A/paragraph-3.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1996/56",
  "legislation_title": "Education Act 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-act-1996",
  "path": "schedule/31A/paragraph/3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Imposition of penalty",
  "text": "(1) Where a person has made representations in response to a warning notice, or the time for doing so has elapsed, the local authority must decide whether to require the person to pay the monetary penalty.\n(2) The local authority may not require the person to pay a monetary penalty if the authority is no longer satisfied as mentioned in section 436E(8).\n(3) If the local authority decide not to require the person to pay the penalty, the authority must inform the person of that fact.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 31A inserted (29.4.2026 but only in relation to the power to make regulations conferred by s. 436E and Sch. 31A para. 5, otherwise prosp.) by Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Act 2026 (c. 21), ss. 38(7), 78(1)(a)(3)(5)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1996/56/schedule/31A/paragraph/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:29:40.627017+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."
}