{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-penalty-notices-england-regulations-2007/regulation-14",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2007/1867",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (Penalty Notices) (England) Regulations 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-penalty-notices-england-regulations-2007",
  "path": "regulation/14",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "14",
  "heading": "Requirement to draw up code of conduct",
  "text": "Each local education authority must 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 penalty notices;\n(b) measures to ensure that a penalty notice is not issued in respect of an offence when proceedings for that offence under section 444 of the 1996 Act (or an offence under subsection (1A) of that section arising out of the same circumstances) or section 103(3) of the 2006 Act, as the case may be, 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": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Authorised officers are defined in section 444B(4) of 1996 c. 56 in relation to penalty notices under section 444A of that Act, and in subsection (6) of section 105 of 2006 c. 40 in relation to penalty notices under that section."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "reg. 14 renumbered as reg. 14(1)",
      "affecting": "uksi/2024/210",
      "affecting_title": "The Education (Penalty Notices) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2024"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2024/210",
      "affecting_title": "The Education (Penalty Notices) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2024"
    },
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2024/210",
      "affecting_title": "The Education (Penalty Notices) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2024"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2007/1867/regulation/14",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:49:57.444425+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."
}