{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/greenhouse-gas-emissions-trading-scheme-regulations-2012/regulation-70",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/greenhouse-gas-emissions-trading-scheme-regulations-2012/regulation-70.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/70",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "70",
  "heading": "Providing false or misleading information",
  "text": "(1) A person (“P”) is liable to the civil penalty in paragraph (2) where P provides false or misleading information, or makes a statement which is false or misleading in a material particular, where the statement is made or the information is provided—\n(a) in any application made under these Regulations, or in response to a notice served under paragraph 1(12) of Schedule 3;\n(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(d) in response to a notice served under regulation 45(2);\n(e) pursuant to a requirement mentioned in regulation 80(2) or (4);\n(f) in purported compliance with the conditions of a permit ...; ...\n(g) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(h) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(2) The civil penalty is £50,000.",
  "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": "Reg. 70(1)(b)(c) 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), 24(a)(i) (with reg. 46)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 70(1)(f) 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), 24(a)(ii) (with reg. 46)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Word in reg. 70(1)(f) omitted (4.12.2015) by virtue of The Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme (Amendment) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/1849), regs. 1(1), 8(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Reg. 70(1)(g)(h) 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), 24(a)(iii) (with reg. 46)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Sum in reg. 70(2) 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), 24(b) (with reg. 46)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/3038/regulation/70",
    "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."
}