{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/energy-savings-opportunity-scheme-regulations-2014/regulation-42",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/energy-savings-opportunity-scheme-regulations-2014/regulation-42.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2014/1643",
  "legislation_title": "The Energy Savings Opportunity Scheme Regulations 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/energy-savings-opportunity-scheme-regulations-2014",
  "path": "regulation/42",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "42",
  "heading": "Discretion in waiving, imposition and modification of civil penalties",
  "text": "(1) Where the compliance body considers appropriate, it may—\n(a) waive a civil penalty,\n(b) allow additional time to pay any financial penalty,\n(c) impose a lower financial penalty, or substitute a lower financial penalty where one has already been imposed, or\n(d) modify the application of a publication penalty.\n(2) Where, at any time before a financial penalty is due to be paid, the compliance body ceases to be satisfied that the responsible undertaking is liable for that penalty, it may serve a further notice on that undertaking—\n(a) withdrawing the penalty notice, or\n(b) modifying the penalty notice.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2014/1643/regulation/42",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:12:06.235678+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."
}