{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/greenhouse-gas-emissions-trading-scheme-regulations-2012/regulation-53",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/greenhouse-gas-emissions-trading-scheme-regulations-2012/regulation-53.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/53",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "53",
  "heading": "Failure to comply with a condition of a permit",
  "text": "(1) An operator is liable to the civil penalties in paragraph (3) where the operator fails to comply (or comply on time) with a condition of a permit included pursuant to—\n(a) paragraph 2(1)(e)(ii) or (iv) of Schedule 4 ...;\n(b) paragraph 3(1)(g), (h) or (i) of Schedule 5; or\n(c) regulation 10 of the 2005 Regulations, other than regulation 10(3) and (4) (or such a condition as modified by virtue of regulation 88 of these Regulations).\n(2) However, an operator is not liable to those civil penalties where the failure to comply gives rise to a penalty under regulation 57.\n(3) The civil penalties are—\n(a) £20,000; and\n(b) £500 for each day that the operator fails to comply with the condition following service of a penalty notice, up to a maximum of £45,000.\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "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. 53(1)(a) 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), 18(a)(i) (with reg. 46)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 53(1)(c) 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), 18(a)(ii) (with reg. 46)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Sum in reg. 53(3)(a) 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), 18(b)(i) (with reg. 46)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Sum in reg. 53(3)(b) 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), 18(b)(ii)(aa) (with reg. 46)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Sum in reg. 53(3)(b) 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), 18(b)(ii)(bb) (with reg. 46)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Reg. 53(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), 18(c) (with reg. 46)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/3038/regulation/53",
    "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."
}