{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-and-regeneration-act-2008/section-234",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-and-regeneration-act-2008/section-234.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2008/17",
  "legislation_title": "Housing and Regeneration Act 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-and-regeneration-act-2008",
  "path": "section/234",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "234",
  "heading": "Enforcement",
  "text": "(1) A penalty shall be treated as a debt owed to the regulator.\n(2) The Treasury may make regulations authorising the regulator—\n(a) to charge interest on penalty not paid during the period specified under section 228(2)(d);\n(b) to impose one or more additional penalties where a penalty is not paid during that period.\n(3) Interest and additional penalty shall be treated as penalty (and may have the effect of increasing the penalty above a limit set by section 229).\n(4) Regulations under subsection (2)(a) may provide for an interest rate to be—\n(a) set by a specified person, or\n(b) determined in accordance with the regulations.\n(5) 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 228(2)(d)).\n(6) A person to whom a penalty notice is given on the ground in Case 6 of section 227 may not be prosecuted for the offence by reference to which the penalty notice was given.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 234(1)(3)(5)(6) in force at 1.4.2010 by S.I. 2010/862, art. 2 (with Sch.)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 234(2)(4) in force at 1.4.2009 for specified purposes by S.I. 2009/803, art. 7(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I3",
      "text": "S. 234(2)(4) in force at 1.4.2010 in so far as not already in force 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/234",
    "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."
}