{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-protection-single-use-vapes-wales-regulations-2024/schedule/paragraph-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-protection-single-use-vapes-wales-regulations-2024/schedule/paragraph-2.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2024/1324",
  "legislation_title": "The Environmental Protection (Single-use Vapes) (Wales) Regulations 2024",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-protection-single-use-vapes-wales-regulations-2024",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Notice of intent",
  "text": "(1) Before a regulator may impose a fixed monetary penalty, a variable monetary penalty, or a compliance notice on a person, the regulator must serve on that person a notice of what is proposed (a “notice of intent”).\n(2) The notice of intent must include—\n(a) the grounds for the proposed fixed monetary penalty, variable monetary penalty, or compliance notice (as the case may be);\n(b) in the case of a proposed compliance notice, the requirements of the notice;\n(c) in the case of a fixed monetary penalty or a variable monetary penalty, the amount to be paid;\n(d) information as to—\n(i) the right to make representations and objections within 28 days, beginning with the day on which the notice of intent was received;\n(ii) the circumstances in which the regulator may not impose the proposed fixed monetary penalty, variable monetary penalty or compliance notice.\n(3) A notice of intent to impose a fixed monetary penalty must also—\n(a) offer the person on whom the notice is served the opportunity to discharge their liability for the penalty by paying the sum of £100 to the regulator within 28 days, beginning with the day on which the notice is received, and\n(b) explain the effect of that discharge.\n(4) A person’s liability for a fixed monetary penalty is discharged if the person pays the sum of £100 to the regulator within the time period specified in sub-paragraph (3)(a).\n(5) A person on whom a notice of intent is served may, within 28 days beginning with the day on which the notice is received, make representations and objections to the regulator in relation to the proposed imposition of the fixed monetary penalty, variable monetary penalty or compliance notice.\n(6) Sub-paragraph (5) does not apply in relation to a notice of intent to serve a fixed monetary penalty if the person makes a payment in accordance with sub-paragraph (4).",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. para. 2 in force at 1.6.2025, see reg. 1(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2024/1324/schedule/paragraph/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:59:10.113428+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."
}