{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/product-security-and-telecommunications-infrastructure-act-2022/section-39",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2022/46",
  "legislation_title": "Product Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure Act 2022",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/product-security-and-telecommunications-infrastructure-act-2022",
  "path": "section/39",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "39",
  "heading": "Penalty notices: further provision",
  "text": "(1) Before giving a penalty notice to a person, the Secretary of State must—\n(a) notify the person of the Secretary of State’s intention to give a penalty notice to the person, and\n(b) give the person an opportunity to make representations about the giving of the notice.\n(2) The Secretary of State may not give a penalty notice to the person before the end of the period of 28 days beginning with the day on which notification under subsection (1)(a) is given.\n(3) A penalty notice must contain the following information—\n(a) the reasons for giving the penalty notice;\n(b) the amount of the penalty;\n(c) how payment may be made;\n(d) the period within which payment must be made;\n(e) how the person to whom the notice is given may appeal against the imposition of the penalty;\n(f) the consequences of failing to pay the penalty.\n(4) The Secretary of State may vary or revoke a penalty notice.\n(5) But the Secretary of State may not vary a penalty notice in order to make it more onerous.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 39 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 79"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 39 in force at 29.4.2024 by S.I. 2023/469, reg. 3"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2022/46/section/39",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:53:55.212760+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."
}