{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-protection-microbeads-wales-regulations-2018/schedule/paragraph-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-protection-microbeads-wales-regulations-2018/schedule/paragraph-16.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2018/760",
  "legislation_title": "The Environmental Protection (Microbeads) (Wales) Regulations 2018",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-protection-microbeads-wales-regulations-2018",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/16",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Offence",
  "text": "(1) Where a person on whom a stop notice is served does not comply with it within the time limit specified in the notice, the person is guilty of an offence and liable—\n(a) on summary conviction, to a fine, or imprisonment for a term not exceeding the general limit in a magistrates’ court, or both; or\n(b) on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years, or a fine, or both.\n(2) In relation to an offence committed before paragraph 24(2) of Schedule 22 to the Sentencing Act 2020 comes into force, the reference in sub-paragraph (1)(a) to the general limit in a magistrates’ court is to be read as a reference to six months.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. para. 16(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 Sch. para. 16(2) substituted (1.12.2020) by Sentencing Act 2020 (c. 17), s. 416(1), Sch. 24 para. 446(1) (with Sch. 24 para. 447, Sch. 27); S.I. 2020/1236, reg. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Sch. para. 16(2) 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": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. para. 16 in force at 30.6.2018, see reg. 1(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2018/760/schedule/paragraph/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:22:41.668231+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."
}