{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-and-regeneration-act-2008/section-229",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-and-regeneration-act-2008/section-229.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2008/17",
  "legislation_title": "Housing and Regeneration Act 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-and-regeneration-act-2008",
  "path": "section/229",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "229",
  "heading": "Amount",
  "text": "(1) The amount of a penalty imposed on the ground specified in Case 6 of section 227 may not exceed the maximum amount (if any) of fine that a magistrates' court could impose for the relevant offence.\n(2) The amount of a penalty that may be imposed on the ground specified in any other Case of that section is unlimited.\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 229(1) inserted (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. 5 para. 14 (with reg. 5(1))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 229(2) inserted (1.4.2024) by Social Housing (Regulation) Act 2023 (c. 36), s. 46(3), Sch. 3 para. 6(a); S.I. 2024/437, reg. 2(y)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 229(2) substituted (1.4.2024) by Social Housing (Regulation) Act 2023 (c. 36), s. 46(3), Sch. 3 para. 6(b); S.I. 2024/437, reg. 2(y)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "S. 229(3) omitted (1.4.2024) by virtue of Social Housing (Regulation) Act 2023 (c. 36), s. 46(3), Sch. 3 para. 6(c); S.I. 2024/437, reg. 2(y)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 229 in force at 1.4.2010 by S.I. 2010/862, art. 2 (with Sch.)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2008/17/section/229",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:11:57.313988+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."
}