{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/energy-efficiency-private-rented-property-england-and-wales-regulations-2015/regulation-40",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/energy-efficiency-private-rented-property-england-and-wales-regulations-2015/regulation-40.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2015/962",
  "legislation_title": "The Energy Efficiency (Private Rented Property) (England and Wales) Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/energy-efficiency-private-rented-property-england-and-wales-regulations-2015",
  "path": "regulation/40",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "40",
  "heading": "Breaches in relation to domestic PR property",
  "text": "(1) The penalties set out in this regulation apply where L is, or was, the landlord of a domestic PR property.\n(2) Where L has breached regulation 23 and, at the time the penalty notice is served has, or had, been in breach for less than three months, the penalties are—\n(a) a financial penalty not exceeding £2,000, and\n(b) the publication penalty.\n(3) Where L has breached regulation 23 and, at the time the penalty notice is served has, or had, been in breach for three months or more, the penalties are—\n(a) a financial penalty not exceeding £4,000, and\n(b) the publication penalty.\n(4) Where L has registered false or misleading information under regulation 36(2), the penalties are—\n(a) a financial penalty not exceeding £1,000, and\n(b) the publication penalty.\n(5) Where L has failed to comply with a compliance notice in breach of regulation 37(4)(a), the penalties are—\n(a) a financial penalty not exceeding £2,000, and\n(b) the publication penalty.\n(6) Where an enforcement authority imposes financial penalties on L in relation to a breach of regulation 23 in respect of a domestic PR property—\n(a) under paragraph (2) or (3), and\n(b) under one or both of paragraphs (4) and (5),\nthe total of the financial penalties imposed on L must be no more than £5,000.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 40 in force at 1.4.2017 for specified purposes, see reg. 1(3)(a) (as inserted by S.I. 2016/660, reg. 3(b))"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "Reg. 40 in force at 1.10.2017 in so far as not already in force, see reg. 1(3)(b) (as inserted by S.I. 2016/660, reg. 3(b))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/962/regulation/40",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:39:23.841374+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."
}