{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/estate-agents-act-1979/schedule-4/paragraph-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/estate-agents-act-1979/schedule-4/paragraph-1.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1979/38",
  "legislation_title": "Estate Agents Act 1979",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/estate-agents-act-1979",
  "path": "schedule/4/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "A penalty charge notice given to a person under section 23B(1) by a duly authorised officer of an enforcement authority ... must—\n(a) state the officer's belief that that person has committed a breach of the duty imposed by an order under section 23A(1);\n(b) give such other particulars of the circumstances as may be necessary to give reasonable notice of the breach of duty;\n(c) require that person, within a period specified in the notice—\n(i) to pay a penalty charge specified in the notice; or\n(ii) to give notice to the enforcement authority that he wishes to review the notice;\n(d) state the effect of paragraph 8;\n(e) specify the person to whom and the address at which the penalty charge may be paid and the method or methods by which payment may be made; and\n(f) specify the person to whom and the address at which a notice requesting a review may be sent (and to which any representations relating to the review may be addressed).",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 4 inserted (12.10.2007) by Consumers, Estate Agents and Redress Act 2007 (c. 17), s. 66(2), Sch. 6 para. 4; S.I. 2007/2934, art. 3, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 4 para. 1 omitted (31.3.2014) by virtue of The Public Bodies (Abolition of the National Consumer Council and Transfer of the Office of Fair Trading’s Functions in relation to Estate Agents etc) Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/631), art. 1(5), Sch. 2 para. 1(15)(a) (with Sch. 1 para. 28, 2 paras. 13-15)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1979/38/schedule/4/paragraph/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:17:14.771399+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."
}