{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/radio-equipment-regulations-2017/regulation-72",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/radio-equipment-regulations-2017/regulation-72.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2017/1206",
  "legislation_title": "The Radio Equipment Regulations 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/radio-equipment-regulations-2017",
  "path": "regulation/72",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "72",
  "heading": "Action by enforcing authority",
  "text": "(1) An enforcing authority may itself take action which an economic operator could have been required to take by a notice served under these Regulations where the conditions for serving such a notice are met and either—\n(a) the enforcing authority has been unable to identify any economic operator on whom to serve such a notice, or\n(b) the economic operator on whom such a notice has been served has failed to comply with it.\n(2) If the enforcing authority has taken action as a result of the condition in paragraph (1)(b) being met, the authority may recover from the economic operator, as a civil debt, any costs or expenses reasonably incurred by the enforcing authority in taking the action.\n(3) A civil debt recoverable under paragraph (2) may be recovered summarily—\n(a) in England and Wales by way of a complaint pursuant to section 58 of the Magistrates' Courts Act 1980 ,\n(b) in Northern Ireland in proceedings under article 62 of the Magistrates' Court (Northern Ireland) Order 1981 .",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1980 c. 43. Section 58 was amended by paragraph 40 of Schedule 10 to the Crime and Courts Act 2013 (c. 22)."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "S.R. (NI) 1981 No 1675."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2017/1206/regulation/72",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:05:19.945566+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."
}