{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/offshore-environmental-civil-sanctions-regulations-2018/regulation-11",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/offshore-environmental-civil-sanctions-regulations-2018/regulation-11.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2018/800",
  "legislation_title": "The Offshore Environmental Civil Sanctions Regulations 2018",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/offshore-environmental-civil-sanctions-regulations-2018",
  "path": "regulation/11",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "11",
  "heading": "Variable monetary penalties: power to impose",
  "text": "(1) If the Secretary of State is satisfied beyond reasonable doubt that a person has committed a VMP offence, the Secretary of State may, in accordance with this Part, impose a variable monetary penalty on the person in relation to the offence.\n(2) An offence is a “VMP offence” if—\n(a) the offence is contained in a provision specified in column 1 of any of the tables in the Schedule; and\n(b) “Yes” is set out in the corresponding entry in column 4.\n(3) A “variable monetary penalty”, in relation to a VMP offence, is a requirement to pay to the Secretary of State a penalty of an amount determined by the Secretary of State.\n(4) The amount of any variable monetary penalty must not exceed £50,000.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 11 in force at 1.10.2018, see reg. 1(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2018/800/regulation/11",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:55:59.160924+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."
}