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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environment-wales-act-2016/schedule-1/paragraph-2",
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  "legislation": "anaw/2016/3",
  "legislation_title": "Environment (Wales) Act 2016",
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  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/2",
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  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Carrier bag regulations may confer on an administrator the power by notice to impose a fixed monetary penalty on a person who breaches the regulations.\n(2) The regulations may only confer such a power in relation to a case where the administrator is satisfied on the balance of probabilities that the breach has occurred.\n(3) For the purposes of this Schedule, a “fixed monetary penalty” is a requirement to pay to an administrator a penalty of an amount specified in or determined in accordance with the regulations.\n(4) The regulations may not provide for the imposition of a fixed monetary penalty in excess of £5,000.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
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  "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."
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