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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-hygiene-rating-act-northern-ireland-2016/section-11",
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  "legislation": "nia/2016/3",
  "legislation_title": "Food Hygiene Rating Act (Northern Ireland) 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-hygiene-rating-act-northern-ireland-2016",
  "path": "section/11",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "11",
  "heading": "Fixed penalty",
  "text": "(1) Where an authorised officer of a district council has reason to believe that an offence has been committed under section 10(1) or (2) in the case of a food business establishment in its district, the officer may give the operator of the establishment a fixed penalty notice.\n(2) A “fixed penalty notice” is a notice offering the operator the opportunity to discharge any liability to conviction for the offence by payment of a fixed penalty.\n(3) The Schedule (which makes further provision about fixed penalties) has effect.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 11 in operation at 7.10.2016 by S.R. 2016/328, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2016/3/section/11",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:20:06.273684+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."
}