{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-permitting-england-and-wales-regulations-2016/regulation-39",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-permitting-england-and-wales-regulations-2016/regulation-39.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2016/1154",
  "legislation_title": "The Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-permitting-england-and-wales-regulations-2016",
  "path": "regulation/39",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "39",
  "heading": "Penalties and enforcement undertakings",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2), a person guilty of an offence under regulation 38(1), (2) or (3) is liable—\n(a) on summary conviction to a fine or imprisonment for a term not exceeding the general limit in a magistrates’ court, or to both;\n(b) on conviction on indictment to a fine or imprisonment for a term not exceeding 5 years, or to both.\n(2) A person guilty of offence under regulation 38(1), (2) or (3) in respect of a flood risk activity is liable—\n(a) on summary conviction to a fine or imprisonment for a term not exceeding the general limit in a magistrates’ court, or to both;\n(b) on conviction on indictment to a fine or imprisonment for a term not exceeding 2 years, or both.\n(3) In relation to an offence committed before 2nd May 2022 , paragraphs (1)(a) and (2)(a) have effect as if for “the general limit in a magistrates’ court” there were substituted “ 6 months ”.\n(4) A person guilty of an offence under regulation 38(4) is liable—\n(a) on summary conviction to a fine;\n(b) on conviction on indictment to a fine or imprisonment for a term not exceeding 2 years, or to both.\n(5) An establishment or undertaking guilty of an offence under regulation 38(5) is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 2 on the standard scale.\n(6) Schedule 26 (enforcement undertakings) has effect.\n(7) Schedule 26A (Variable monetary penalties (England)) has effect.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 39(1)(a) substituted (7.2.2023 at 12.00 p.m.) by The Judicial Review and Courts Act 2022 (Magistrates’ Court Sentencing Powers) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/149), regs. 1(2), 2(2), Sch. Pt. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 39(2)(a) substituted (7.2.2023 at 12.00 p.m.) by The Judicial Review and Courts Act 2022 (Magistrates’ Court Sentencing Powers) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/149), regs. 1(2), 2(2), Sch. Pt. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 39(3) substituted (28.4.2022) by The Criminal Justice Act 2003 (Commencement No. 33) and Sentencing Act 2020 (Commencement No. 2) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/500), regs. 1(2), 5(2), Sch. Pt. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 39(3) substituted (7.2.2023 at 12.00 p.m.) by The Judicial Review and Courts Act 2022 (Magistrates’ Court Sentencing Powers) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/149), regs. 1(2), 2(2), Sch. Pt. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Reg. 39(7) inserted (E.) (1.12.2023) by The Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) (Amendment) (England) (No. 2) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/1046), regs. 1(1), 3"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/1154/regulation/39",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-05T03:41:31.926820+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."
}