{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/producer-responsibility-obligations-packaging-and-packaging-waste-regulations-2024/schedule-13/paragraph-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/producer-responsibility-obligations-packaging-and-packaging-waste-regulations-2024/schedule-13/paragraph-9.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2024/1332",
  "legislation_title": "The Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging and Packaging Waste) Regulations 2024",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/producer-responsibility-obligations-packaging-and-packaging-waste-regulations-2024",
  "path": "schedule/13/paragraph/9",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) If a notice of intent to impose a fixed monetary penalty is served on any person in relation to a contravention which is an offence (“the related offence”), no criminal proceedings may be instituted against that person for the related offence before the expiry of a period of 28 days beginning with the day on which the notice of intent is served.\n(2) If, in relation to a contravention which is an offence, a person has paid a fixed monetary penalty, or has discharged liability for a fixed monetary penalty within the 28 day period referred to in sub-paragraph (1), that person may not by reason of the contravention be convicted at any time of the related offence, unless the contravention is a continuing act or omission.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 13 para. 9 in force at 1.1.2025, see reg. 1(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2024/1332/schedule/13/paragraph/9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:22:40.326092+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."
}