{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/leasehold-and-freehold-reform-act-2024/schedule-2/paragraph-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/leasehold-and-freehold-reform-act-2024/schedule-2/paragraph-7.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2024/22",
  "legislation_title": "Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/leasehold-and-freehold-reform-act-2024",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/7",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Recovery of penalty",
  "text": "(1) A penalty is recoverable by the enforcement authority that imposed it, if the county court so orders, as if it were payable under an order of that court.\n(2) In proceedings before the county court for the recovery of a penalty, a certificate that—\n(a) is signed by the chief finance officer of the authority that imposed the penalty, and\n(b) states that the amount due has not been received by a date specified in the certificate,\nis evidence of that fact.\n(3) A certificate to that effect and purporting to be so signed is to be treated as being so signed unless the contrary is proved.\n(4) In this paragraph “chief finance officer” has the same meaning as in section 5 of the Local Government and Housing Act 1989.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 7 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 124(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2024/22/schedule/2/paragraph/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-07T03:34:48.566347+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."
}