{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-offences-fixed-penalties-miscellaneous-provisions-regulations-northern-ireland-2012/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-offences-fixed-penalties-miscellaneous-provisions-regulations-northern-ireland-2012/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2012/35",
  "legislation_title": "The Environmental Offences (Fixed Penalties) (Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-offences-fixed-penalties-miscellaneous-provisions-regulations-northern-ireland-2012",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Lesser amounts of fixed penalties",
  "text": "(1) Where a district council acting under—\n(a) Article 6(7) of, and paragraph 7(5) of Schedule 1A to, the Litter Order; or\n(b) sections 27(2), 44(3) or 53(3) of the 2011 Act,\nmakes provision for treating a fixed penalty as having been paid if a lesser amount is paid before the end of a period specified by that council, such lesser amount shall be not less than £40.\n(2) Where a district council acting under—\n(a) Article 14A(5) of the Litter Order;\n(b) section 8A(4) of the Noise Act; or\n(c) section 4(10) of the 2011 Act,\nmakes provision for treating a fixed penalty as having been paid if a lesser amount is paid before the end of a period specified by that council, such lesser amount shall be not less than £60.\n(3) Where a district council acting under Article 29A(10) of the 1978 Order makes provision for treating a fixed penalty as having been paid if a lesser amount is paid before the end of a period specified by that council, such lesser amount shall be not less than £120.\n(4) A district council acting under more than one of the provisions in paragraph (1) or in paragraph (2) may specify a different lesser amount under each such provision.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 4 in operation at 1.4.2012, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Article 6(7) and Schedule 1A were respectively inserted by sections 16(2) and 21(3) of the 2011 Act."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Article 14A was inserted by section 20 of the 2011 Act."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Section 8A was inserted by section 61(2) of the 2011 Act."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "Article 29A was inserted by section 7 of the 2011 Act."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2012/35/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:17:52.345886+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."
}