{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/regulatory-enforcement-and-sanctions-act-2008/section-49",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/regulatory-enforcement-and-sanctions-act-2008/section-49.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2008/13",
  "legislation_title": "Regulatory Enforcement and Sanctions Act 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/regulatory-enforcement-and-sanctions-act-2008",
  "path": "section/49",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "49",
  "heading": "Stop notices: enforcement",
  "text": "(1) Provision under section 46 conferring power on a regulator to serve a stop notice must provide that, where a person on whom a notice is served does not comply with it, the person is guilty of an offence and liable—\n(a) on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding £20,000 a fine, or imprisonment for term not exceeding twelve months, or both, or\n(b) on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years, or a fine, or both.\n(1A) In the application of this section in England and Wales, the reference in subsection (1)(a) to twelve months is to be read as a reference to the general limit in a magistrates’ court (or to six months in relation to an offence committed before 2 May 2022).\n(2) In the application of this section—\n(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(b) in Northern Ireland,\nthe reference in subsection (1)(a) to twelve months is to be read as a reference to six months.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 49(1)(a) substituted (E.W.) (12.3.2015) by The Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (Fines on Summary Conviction) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/664), reg. 1(1), Sch. 4 para. 39 (with reg. 5(1))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 49(1A) inserted (7.2.2023 at 12.00 p.m.) by The Judicial Review and Courts Act 2022 (Magistrates’ Court Sentencing Powers) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/149), regs. 1(2), 18(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 49(2)(a) omitted (7.2.2023 at 12.00 p.m.) by virtue of The Judicial Review and Courts Act 2022 (Magistrates’ Court Sentencing Powers) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/149), regs. 1(2), 18(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 49(1) modified (15.2.2011) by Waste (Wales) Measure 2010 (nawm 8), ss. 10(3)(b), 21(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "S. 49(1) modified (15.2.2011) by Waste (Wales) Measure 2010 (nawm 8), ss. 14(3), 21(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2008/13/section/49",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-05T03:34:57.307426+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."
}