{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-offences-fixed-penalties-miscellaneous-provisions-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2022/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-offences-fixed-penalties-miscellaneous-provisions-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2022/note.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2022/302",
  "legislation_title": "The Environmental Offences (Fixed Penalties) (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2022",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-offences-fixed-penalties-miscellaneous-provisions-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2022",
  "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) (Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2012 (“the principal Regulations”).\nRegulation 3 of the principal Regulations prescribe the ranges within which the amounts of certain fixed penalties that are capable of being specified by a district council are required to fall.\nRegulation 3 of these Regulations inserts a definition of the Dog Control Orders (Prescribed Offences and Penalties, etc.) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2012 into the principal Regulations.\nRegulation 4 of these Regulations amends the principal Regulations to increase the range within which a district council may specify its own penalty amount under Article 6(6A)(a) of the Litter (Northern Ireland) Order 1994 for the offence of littering from between £50 and £80 to between £50 and £200.\nRegulation 4 of these Regulations also amends the principal Regulations to increase the range within which a district council may specify its own penalty amount under section 44(1)(a) of the Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Act (Northern Ireland) 2011 for the offence of contravention of a dog control order relating to dog fouling from between £50 and £80 to between £50 and £200.\nAn impact assessment on the effect of these Regulations has not been prepared as they have no impact on the cost to business.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2022/302/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:32:41.933428+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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