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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-health-minimum-price-for-alcohol-wales-act-2018/section-9",
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  "legislation": "anaw/2018/5",
  "legislation_title": "Public Health (Minimum Price for Alcohol) (Wales) Act 2018",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-health-minimum-price-for-alcohol-wales-act-2018",
  "path": "section/9",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Fixed penalties",
  "text": "(1) Where an authorised officer of a local authority has reason to believe that a person has committed an offence under section 2 in the local authority's area, the officer may give that person a fixed penalty notice in respect of that offence.\n(2) A fixed penalty notice is a notice offering a person the opportunity to discharge any liability to conviction for the offence by paying a fixed penalty.\n(3) In the case of an offence that an authorised officer has reason to believe has been committed by a partnership, the reference in subsection (1) to the person to whom a fixed penalty notice may be given is to be treated as a reference to the partnership.\n(4) In the case of an offence that an authorised officer has reason to believe has been committed by an unincorporated association other than a partnership, the reference in subsection (1) to the person to whom a fixed penalty notice may be given is to be treated as a reference to the association.\n(5) For further provision about fixed penalties, see Schedule 1.\n(6) For the meaning of “authorised officer”, see section 11.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 9 in force at 2.3.2020 by S.I. 2020/175, reg. 2(b)"
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/anaw/2018/5/section/9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:18:06.125167+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."
}