{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/greenhouse-gas-emissions-trading-scheme-regulations-2012/regulation-50",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/greenhouse-gas-emissions-trading-scheme-regulations-2012/regulation-50.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2012/3038",
  "legislation_title": "The Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme Regulations 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/greenhouse-gas-emissions-trading-scheme-regulations-2012",
  "path": "regulation/50",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "50",
  "heading": "Penalty notices",
  "text": "(1) Where the regulator is satisfied that a person (“P”) is liable to a civil penalty under this Part the regulator must (subject to regulation 51) serve a notice on P.\n(2) The penalty notice must specify—\n(a) the regulation under which that liability arises;\n(b) the amount of the civil penalty due;\n(c) where appropriate, how that amount is calculated;\n(d) whether or not P may be liable to a civil penalty in accordance with regulation 53(3)(b), 56(2)(b), 68(2)(b), or 69(2)(b) (an “additional daily penalty”); and\n(e) if P will not be liable to an additional daily penalty, the date by which the penalty for which P is liable must be paid.\n(3) Subject to regulation 51 ..., where the regulator is satisfied that P is liable to an additional daily penalty the regulator must, when the amount of that additional daily penalty can be determined, serve a notice on P specifying—\n(a) the total amount of the civil penalties due; and\n(b) the date by which that amount must be paid.\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(5) A civil penalty imposed by a penalty notice or an additional penalty notice must be paid to the regulator by the date specified in the notice.\n(6) Any such civil penalty is recoverable by the regulator—\n(a) as a civil debt; ...\n(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(7) the regulator must, as soon as is reasonably practicable—\n(a) give notice to the authority of the service of any penalty notice or additional penalty notice; and\n(b) pass to the authority any civil penalty that has been paid to the regulator.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Regulations revoked in so far as they continue to apply in relation to the UK Registry (1.5.2021) by The Greenhouse Gas Emissions (Kyoto Protocol Registry) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/511), regs. 1, 12"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 50(2)(d) substituted (31.12.2020 immediately before IP completion day) by The Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme (Withdrawal Agreement) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1369), regs. 1(2), 16(a) (with reg. 46)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 50(3) omitted (31.12.2020 immediately before IP completion day) by virtue of The Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme (Withdrawal Agreement) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1369), regs. 1(2), 16(b) (with reg. 46)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Reg. 50(4) omitted (31.12.2020 immediately before IP completion day) by virtue of The Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme (Withdrawal Agreement) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1369), regs. 1(2), 16(c) (with reg. 46)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Reg. 50(6)(b) and word omitted (31.12.2020 immediately before IP completion day) by virtue of The Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme (Withdrawal Agreement) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1369), regs. 1(2), 16(d) (with reg. 46)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/3038/regulation/50",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:11:20.029288+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."
}