{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/privacy-and-electronic-communications-ec-directive-regulations-2003/schedule-1/paragraph-18",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/privacy-and-electronic-communications-ec-directive-regulations-2003/schedule-1/paragraph-18.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2003/2426",
  "legislation_title": "The Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/privacy-and-electronic-communications-ec-directive-regulations-2003",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/18",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": "Modification of section 157 (maximum amount of penalty)",
  "text": "Section 157 has effect as if—\n(a) subsection (1) were omitted;\n(b) in subsection (2)—\n(i) for “Part 3 of this Act” there were substituted “the PEC Regulations”;\n(ii) in paragraph (a), for the words from “section 35” to “or 78” there were substituted “regulation 5, 6, 7, 8, 14, 19, 20, 21, 21A, 21B, 22, 23 , 24 or 32B(4) or (5)”;\n(c) subsections (3) and (4A) were omitted;\n(d) after subsection (4A) there were inserted—\n“(4B) In relation to an infringement of section 142(8B) of this Act, the maximum amount of the penalty that may be imposed by a penalty notice is the higher maximum amount.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 substituted (5.2.2026) by Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 (c. 18), s. 142(1), Sch. 13; S.I. 2026/82, reg. 2(z14) (with regs. 8-11)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 1 para. 18(b)(ii) substituted (5.2.2026) by Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 (c. 18), ss. 116(4), 142(1); S.I. 2026/82, reg. 2(z)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/2426/schedule/1/paragraph/18",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:58:14.928783+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."
}