{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/official-controls-plant-health-and-genetically-modified-organisms-england-regulations-2019/schedule-4A/paragraph-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/official-controls-plant-health-and-genetically-modified-organisms-england-regulations-2019/schedule-4A/paragraph-6.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2019/1517",
  "legislation_title": "The Official Controls (Plant Health and Genetically Modified Organisms) (England) Regulations 2019",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/official-controls-plant-health-and-genetically-modified-organisms-england-regulations-2019",
  "path": "schedule/4A/paragraph/6",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Combination of penalties",
  "text": "(1) The appropriate authority may not serve a notice of intent relating to a fixed monetary penalty if, in relation to the same offence—\n(a) a compliance notice, restoration notice or stop notice has been served on that person (see paragraphs 1, 2 and 17);\n(b) a variable monetary penalty has been imposed on that person (see paragraph 4); or\n(c) a third party or enforcement undertaking has been accepted from that person (see paragraphs 9 and 23).\n(2) The appropriate authority may not serve a notice of intent relating to a compliance notice, a restoration notice or a variable monetary penalty, or serve a stop notice, on any person if, in relation to the same offence—\n(a) a fixed monetary penalty has been imposed on that person; or\n(b) that person has discharged liability for a fixed monetary penalty following service of a notice of intent to impose that penalty.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 4A inserted (29.10.2020) by The Official Controls (Plant Health and Genetically Modified Organisms) (England) (Amendment) (No. 4) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1089), reg. 1, Sch."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2019/1517/schedule/4A/paragraph/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:35:09.912166+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."
}