{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-penalty-notices-england-regulations-2004/regulation-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-penalty-notices-england-regulations-2004/regulation-12.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2004/181",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (Penalty Notices) (England) Regulations 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-penalty-notices-england-regulations-2004",
  "path": "regulation/12",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Codes of conduct",
  "text": "Each local education authority shall draw up a code of conduct which sets out measures to ensure consistency in the issuing of penalty notices, including —\n(a) means of avoiding the issue of duplicate notices;\n(b) measures to ensure that a notice is not issued when proceedings for an offence under section 444 of the Act are contemplated or have been commenced by the local education authority;\n(c) the occasions when it will be appropriate to issue a penalty notice for an offence;\n(d) a maximum number of penalty notices that may be issued to one parent in any twelve month period; and\n(e) arrangements for co-ordination between the local education authority, neighbouring local education authorities where appropriate, the police and authorised officers.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2004/181/regulation/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:35:00.048478+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."
}