{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/railways-penalty-fares-regulations-2018/regulation-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/railways-penalty-fares-regulations-2018/regulation-12.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2018/366",
  "legislation_title": "The Railways (Penalty Fares) Regulations 2018",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/railways-penalty-fares-regulations-2018",
  "path": "regulation/12",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Recovery of penalty fare as a civil debt",
  "text": "(1) Where a person charged a penalty fare under regulation 5(1) has not paid the penalty fare in full, the operator on whose behalf the penalty fare was charged may recover the amount outstanding as a civil debt in any of the following circumstances—\n(a) the person did not appeal under regulation 16 against the penalty fare within the 21 day period provided for by regulation 16(1)(a);\n(b) the person—\n(i) appealed under regulation 16 within that period;\n(ii) the relevant Appeal Panel notified the person that it had not allowed the appeal;\n(iii) the relevant Appeal Panel adhered to the time period specified in paragraph 6 of Schedule 2; and\n(iv) the person did not appeal under regulation 17 against that decision within the 14 day period provided for by regulation 17(1)(a);\n(c) the person—\n(i) appealed under regulation 17 within that period;\n(ii) the relevant Appeal Panel notified the person that it had not allowed the appeal;\n(iii) the relevant Appeal Panel adhered to the time period specified in paragraph 6 of Schedule 2; and\n(iv) the person did not appeal under regulation 18 against that decision within the 14 day period provided for by regulation 18(1)(a); or\n(d) the person—\n(i) appealed under regulation 18 within that period;\n(ii) the relevant Final Appeal Panel notified the person that it had not allowed the appeal; and\n(iii) the period of 14 days, beginning with the day following the day on which the notice of that decision was received, has elapsed.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 12 in force at 6.4.2018, see reg. 1(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2018/366/regulation/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:00:09.841266+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."
}