{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-protection-microbeads-england-regulations-2017/regulation-10",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-protection-microbeads-england-regulations-2017/regulation-10.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2017/1312",
  "legislation_title": "The Environmental Protection (Microbeads) (England) Regulations 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-protection-microbeads-england-regulations-2017",
  "path": "regulation/10",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": "Guidance",
  "text": "(1) The regulator must publish guidance about its use of civil sanctions under these Regulations in relation to an offence under regulation 3.\n(2) In the case of guidance relating to a fixed monetary penalty, compliance notice or stop notice, the guidance must contain the relevant information set out in paragraph (3).\n(3) The relevant information referred to in paragraph (2) is information as to—\n(a) the circumstances in which the requirement or notice is likely to be imposed;\n(b) the circumstances in which it may not be imposed;\n(c) rights to make representations and objections and rights of appeal; and\n(d) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) The regulator must revise the guidance where appropriate.\n(5) The regulator must consult such persons as it considers appropriate before publishing any guidance or revised guidance under this regulation.\n(6) The regulator must have regard to the guidance or revised guidance in exercising its functions.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in reg. 10(2) substituted (1.10.2023) by The Environmental Protection (Plastic Plates etc. and Polystyrene Containers etc.) (England) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/982), reg. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 4(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. 10(3)(d) omitted (1.10.2023) by virtue of The Environmental Protection (Plastic Plates etc. and Polystyrene Containers etc.) (England) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/982), reg. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 4(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 10 in force at 9.1.2018, see reg. 1(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2017/1312/regulation/10",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:04:05.953548+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."
}