{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-no-2-act-northern-ireland-2008/section-52",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-no-2-act-northern-ireland-2008/section-52.json",
  "legislation": "nia/2008/13",
  "legislation_title": "Pensions (No. 2) Act (Northern Ireland) 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-no-2-act-northern-ireland-2008",
  "path": "section/52",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "52",
  "heading": "Penalty notices",
  "text": "(1) The Regulator may issue a penalty notice to an employer if it is of the opinion that the employer—\n(a) has contravened section 50, or\n(b) has failed to comply with a compliance notice under section 51.\n(2) A penalty notice is a notice requiring the person to whom it is issued to pay a penalty within the period specified in the notice.\n(3) The penalty—\n(a) is to be determined in accordance with regulations, and\n(b) must not exceed £50,000.\n(4) A penalty notice must—\n(a) state the amount of the penalty;\n(b) state the date, which must be at least four weeks after the date on which the notice is issued, by which the penalty must be paid;\n(c) specify the contravention or failure to which the notice relates;\n(d) notify the employer of the review process under section 43 and the right to make a reference under section 44 (as applied by section 53).\n(5) Section 42 (penalty notices: recovery) applies to a penalty payable under this section, and to a notice under this section, as it applies to a penalty payable under section 40, and to a notice under that section.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 52 partly in force; s. 52 in force for certain purposes at Royal Assent see s. 118(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 52 in operation at 30.6.2012 in so far as not already in operation by S.R. 2012/266, art. 2, Sch. Pt. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2008/13/section/52",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:21:20.497944+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."
}