{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-social-care-act-2008-regulated-activities-regulations-2014/regulation-23",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-social-care-act-2008-regulated-activities-regulations-2014/regulation-23.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2014/2936",
  "legislation_title": "The Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-social-care-act-2008-regulated-activities-regulations-2014",
  "path": "regulation/23",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "23",
  "heading": "Offences: penalties",
  "text": "(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) A person guilty of an offence under regulation 22(1) for breach of regulation 11 or an offence under regulation 22(2) is liable on summary conviction to a fine .\n(5) A person guilty of an offence under regulation 22(1) for breach of regulation 16(3), 17(3) or 20(2)(a) and (3 is liable, on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding level 4 on the standard scale.\n(5A) A person guilty of an offence under regulation 22(1) for breach of regulation 20A is liable, on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding level 2 on the standard scale.\n(6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 23(1)(2)(3) omitted (12.3.2015) by virtue of The Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (Fines on Summary Conviction) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/664), reg. 1(1), Sch. 4 para. 85(2) (with reg. 5(1))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 23(4) substituted (12.3.2015) by The Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (Fines on Summary Conviction) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/664), reg. 1(1), Sch. 4 para. 85(3) (with reg. 5(1))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 23(5) substituted (1.4.2015) by The Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) (Amendment) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/64), regs. 1, 13(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Reg. 23(5A) inserted (1.4.2015) by The Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) (Amendment) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/64), regs. 1, 13(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Reg. 23(6) omitted (1.4.2015) by virtue of The Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) (Amendment) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/64), regs. 1, 13(4)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2014/2936/regulation/23",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:57:37.138627+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."
}