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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/political-parties-elections-and-referendums-civil-sanctions-order-2010/article-5",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2010/2860",
  "legislation_title": "The Political Parties, Elections and Referendums (Civil Sanctions) Order 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/political-parties-elections-and-referendums-civil-sanctions-order-2010",
  "path": "article/5",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Recovery of payments",
  "text": "(1) In England and Wales and Northern Ireland, the Commission may recover a fixed monetary penalty, variable monetary penalty, non-compliance penalty, or any interest or other financial penalty for late payment on the order of a court, as if payable under a court order.\n(2) In Scotland, the Commission may recover a fixed monetary penalty, variable monetary penalty, non-compliance penalty, or any interest or other financial penalty for late payment as a civil debt.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in art. 5(1) inserted (14.2.2014) by The Political Parties, Elections and Referendums (Civil Sanctions) (Amendment) Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/335), arts. 1, 3(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in art. 5(2) inserted (14.2.2014) by The Political Parties, Elections and Referendums (Civil Sanctions) (Amendment) Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/335), arts. 1, 3(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 5 in force at 1.12.2010, see art. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "“The Commission” is defined in section 1(1) of the 2000 Act."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "“Variable monetary penalty” is defined at paragraph 5(7) of Schedule 19C."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2010/2860/article/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:23:59.858716+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."
}