{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/heat-network-metering-and-billing-regulations-2014/regulation-14",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/heat-network-metering-and-billing-regulations-2014/regulation-14.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2014/3120",
  "legislation_title": "The Heat Network (Metering and Billing) Regulations 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/heat-network-metering-and-billing-regulations-2014",
  "path": "regulation/14",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "14",
  "heading": "Time limit for prosecution of offences",
  "text": "(1) An offence under regulation 11(1)(a), (e) or (f) regulation 11(1)(e) or (3) may be tried if—\n(a) in England and Wales, the information is laid;\n(b) in Northern Ireland, the complaint is made; or\n(c) in Scotland, the proceedings are begun,\nbefore the end of the period of 12 months beginning on the day after the date on which evidence which the authorised person, or in Scotland the Procurator Fiscal, thinks is sufficient to justify the proceedings comes to that authorised person's or Procurator Fiscal's knowledge.\n(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1)—\n(a) a certificate signed by or on behalf of the prosecutor and stating the date on which such evidence came to the authorised person's or Procurator Fiscal's knowledge is to be conclusive evidence of that fact; and\n(b) a certificate stating that matter and purporting to be so signed is to be treated as so signed unless the contrary is proved.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 14(1) substituted (20.4.2015) by The Heat Network (Metering and Billing) (Amendment) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/855), regs. 1, 11"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 14(1) substituted (27.1.2026) by The Heat Networks (Market Framework) (Great Britain) (Amendment) Regulations 2026 (S.I. 2026/7), regs. 2(2)(c), 12(11)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2014/3120/regulation/14",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:55:34.637072+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."
}