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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-offences-fixed-penalties-amendment-england-regulations-2026/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2026/816",
  "legislation_title": "The Environmental Offences (Fixed Penalties) (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-offences-fixed-penalties-amendment-england-regulations-2026",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend the Environmental Offences (Fixed Penalties) (England) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/1050) and the Environmental Protection Act 1990 (c.43).\nRegulation 2 substitutes regulation 5 of the Environmental Offences (Fixed Penalties) (England) Regulations 2017 to increase, in relation to littering, the upper limit of the amount of a fixed penalty that may be specified by a principal litter authority from £500 to £750.\nRegulation 3 amends section 33ZA(9)(a) of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 to increase the upper limit of the amount of a fixed penalty that may be specified for a waste deposit offence from £1000 to £5000.\nA full regulatory impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no, or no significant, impact on the private, voluntary or public sectors is foreseen.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2026/816/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T20:57:41.952042+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."
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