{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/energy-northern-ireland-order-2003/article-50",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/energy-northern-ireland-order-2003/article-50.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/2003/419",
  "legislation_title": "The Energy (Northern Ireland) Order 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/energy-northern-ireland-order-2003",
  "path": "article/50",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "50",
  "heading": "Recovery of penalties",
  "text": "Where a penalty imposed under Article 45(1) or (2), or any portion of it, has not been paid by the date on which it is required to be paid and—\n(a) no application relating to the penalty has been made under Article 49 during the period within which such an application can be made, or\n(b) an application has been made under that Article and determined,\nthe Authority may recover from the regulated person, as a civil debt due to it, any of the penalty and any interest which has not been paid.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in art. 50 substituted (15.4.2011) by Gas and Electricity (Internal Markets) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2011 (S.R. 2011/155), reg. 71"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Art. 50 applied (with modifications) (3.7.2007) by Electricity Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007 (S.R. 2007/321), regs. 1(1), 56(2) (with transitional provisions in Pt. IV)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/2003/419/article/50",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:40:20.413064+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."
}