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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-protection-single-use-plastic-products-civil-sanctions-wales-regulations-2023/schedule-2/paragraph-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-protection-single-use-plastic-products-civil-sanctions-wales-regulations-2023/schedule-2/paragraph-9.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2023/1288",
  "legislation_title": "The Environmental Protection (Single-use Plastic Products) (Civil Sanctions) (Wales) Regulations 2023",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-protection-single-use-plastic-products-civil-sanctions-wales-regulations-2023",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/9",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Criminal proceedings",
  "text": "(1) If—\n(a) a variable monetary penalty or compliance notice is imposed on any person, or\n(b) a third party undertaking is accepted from any person,\nthat person may not at any time be convicted of the offence in respect of the act or omission giving rise to the variable monetary penalty, compliance notice or third party undertaking except in a case referred to in sub-paragraph (2).\n(2) The case referred to in sub-paragraph (1) is a case where—\n(a) a compliance notice is imposed on a person or a third party undertaking is accepted from a person,\n(b) no variable monetary penalty is imposed on that person, and\n(c) that person fails to comply with the compliance notice or third party undertaking.\n(3) Criminal proceedings for an offence to which a notice or undertaking in sub-paragraph (2) relates may be instituted at any time up to six months from the date when the regulator notifies the person that such person has failed to comply with that notice or undertaking.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2023/1288/schedule/2/paragraph/9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:02:22.068916+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."
}