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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/energy-act-2016/section-46",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2016/20",
  "legislation_title": "Energy Act 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/energy-act-2016",
  "path": "section/46",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "46",
  "heading": "Payment of financial penalty",
  "text": "(1) If a financial penalty notice is given jointly to two or more persons, those persons are jointly and severally liable to pay the financial penalty under it.\n(2) A financial penalty payable under a financial penalty notice is to be recoverable as a civil debt if it is not paid before the end of the period specified under section 44(2)(c)(ii).\n(3) Money received by the OGA under a financial penalty notice must be paid into the Consolidated Fund.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 46 in force at 1.10.2016 by S.I. 2016/920, reg. 2(b)"
    }
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  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2016/20/section/46",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T17:00:57.566799+00:00",
    "licence": "OGL-UK-3.0",
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    "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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