{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1996/section-50M",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1996/section-50M.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1996/52",
  "legislation_title": "Housing Act 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1996",
  "path": "section/50M",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "50M",
  "heading": "Enforcement",
  "text": "(1) A penalty is to be treated as a debt owed to the Welsh Ministers.\n(2) The Welsh Ministers may—\n(a) charge interest on a penalty not paid during the period specified under section 50I(2)(d);\n(b) impose one or more additional penalties where a penalty is not paid during that period.\n(3) Interest and additional penalty are to be treated as penalty (and may have the effect of increasing the penalty above a limit set by section 50J).\n(4) A penalty notice may include provision allowing a discount if the penalty is paid on or before a date specified in the notice (falling within the period specified under section 50I(2)(d)).\n(5) A person to whom a penalty notice is given on the ground in Case 5 of section 50H may not be prosecuted for the offence by reference to which the penalty notice was given.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 50M inserted (18.10.2011) by Housing (Wales) Measure 2011 (nawm 5), ss. 62, 90(2); S.I. 2011/2475, arts. 1(2), 2(l)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1996/52/section/50M",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:29:46.595645+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."
}