{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/payments-in-euro-credit-transfers-and-direct-debits-regulations-2012/regulation-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/payments-in-euro-credit-transfers-and-direct-debits-regulations-2012/regulation-8.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2012/3122",
  "legislation_title": "The Payments in Euro (Credit Transfers and Direct Debits) Regulations 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/payments-in-euro-credit-transfers-and-direct-debits-regulations-2012",
  "path": "regulation/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Injunctions",
  "text": "(1) If, on the application of the Authority, the court is satisfied—\n(a) that there is a reasonable likelihood that a payment service provider will contravene a requirement imposed by the Regulations; or\n(b) that a payment service provider has contravened such a requirement and that there is a reasonable likelihood that the contravention will continue or be repeated,\nthe court may make an order restraining (or in Scotland, an interdict prohibiting) the contravention.\n(2) If, on the application of the Authority, the court is satisfied—\n(a) that a payment service provider has contravened a requirement imposed by the Regulations, and\n(b) that there are steps which could be taken for remedying the contravention,\nthe court may make an order requiring that person, and any other person who appears to have been knowingly concerned in the contravention, to take such steps as the court may direct to remedy it.\n(3) If, on the application of the Authority, the court is satisfied that—\n(a) a payment service provider may have contravened a requirement imposed by the Regulations, or\n(b) any person may have been knowingly concerned in the contravention of such a requirement,\nit may make an order restraining (or in Scotland, an interdict prohibiting) them from disposing of, or otherwise dealing with, any assets of theirs which it is satisfied they are reasonably likely to dispose of or otherwise deal with.\n(4) The jurisdiction conferred by this regulation is exercisable by the High Court and the Court of Session.\n(5) In paragraph (2), references to remedying a contravention include references to mitigating its effect.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in regs. 4-18 substituted (31.12.2020) by The Credit Transfers and Direct Debits in Euro (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1199), regs. 1(2), 3(3)(a) (as substituted by S.I. 2020/1385, regs. 1(4), 45(3)) (with savings in S.I. 2019/680, reg. 11); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/3122/regulation/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:10:18.862264+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."
}