{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/landfill-allowances-scheme-northern-ireland-regulations-2004/regulation-21",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/landfill-allowances-scheme-northern-ireland-regulations-2004/regulation-21.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2004/416",
  "legislation_title": "The Landfill Allowances Scheme (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/landfill-allowances-scheme-northern-ireland-regulations-2004",
  "path": "regulation/21",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "21",
  "heading": "Penalties: general",
  "text": "(1) Where a district council is liable to a penalty, the Department may –\n(a) assess the amount of the penalty, and\n(b) notify the district council of that amount.\n(2) The penalty is due one month after the date on which the district council is notified by the Department under paragraph (1)(b) (“the due date”).\n(3) Where a district council does not pay a penalty in full by the due date, the district council is liable to pay interest on any outstanding amount of the penalty for the period which –\n(a) begins on the due date; and\n(b) ends on the day before the day on which the penalty is paid in full.\n(4) Interest under this regulation shall be payable at a rate of one percentage point above LIBOR on a day to day basis.\n(5) Where an amount has been assessed and notified to a district council under paragraph (1), the amount and any interest incurred under paragraph (3) shall be recoverable as if it were a civil debt.\n(6) In paragraph (4), “LIBOR” means the sterling three month London interbank offered rate in force during the period between –\n(a) the due date, and\n(b) the date on which the penalty is paid in full.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 21(1)(b) substituted (1.3.2006) by The Landfill Allowances Scheme (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005 (S.R. 2005/588), regs. 1, 3(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 21 in operation at 1.4.2005, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2004/416/regulation/21",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:55:55.259701+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."
}