{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-act-2006/schedule-1/paragraph-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-act-2006/schedule-1/paragraph-16.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2006/28",
  "legislation_title": "Health Act 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-act-2006",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/16",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) This paragraph applies if an enforcement authority considers that a penalty notice which an authorised officer acting on its behalf has given to a person (“P”) ought not to have been given.\n(2) The enforcement authority may give notice to P withdrawing the penalty notice.\n(3) If it does so—\n(a) it must repay any amount which has been paid by way of penalty in pursuance of the penalty notice, and\n(b) no proceedings may be brought or continued against P for the offence in question.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 16 functions made exercisable concurrently (8.5.2017) by The West Midlands Combined Authority (Functions and Amendment) Order 2017 (S.I. 2017/510), arts. 1(2), 18"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 16 in force at 2.4.2007 for W. by S.I. 2007/204, art. 2(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 16 in force at 1.7.2007 for E. by S.I. 2007/1375, art. 2(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/28/schedule/1/paragraph/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-05T03:34:55.245189+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."
}