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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/regulatory-enforcement-and-sanctions-act-2008/section-66",
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  "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/66",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "66",
  "heading": "Compliance with regulatory principles",
  "text": "The relevant authority may not make any provision under or by virtue of this Part conferring power on a regulator to impose a civil sanction in relation to an offence unless the authority is satisfied that the regulator will act in accordance with the principles referred to in section 5(2) in exercising that power.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Ss. 63-69 applied (with modifications) (15.2.2011) by Waste (Wales) Measure 2010 (nawm 8), s. 14(4)(5)21(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Ss. 63-69 applied (with modifications) (15.2.2011) by Waste (Wales) Measure 2010 (nawm 8), s. 10(4)(5)21(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "Ss. 63-69 modified (26.11.2018) by Space Industry Act 2018 (c. 5), ss. 59(4), 70(1); S.I. 2018/1224, reg. 2(vv)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C4",
      "text": "Ss. 63-70 applied (with modifications) (7.6.2023) by The Environmental Protection (Single-use Plastic Products) (Wales) Act 2023 (asc 2), ss. 17(3)(5), 22(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C5",
      "text": "Ss. 63-70 applied (4.11.2024) by Historic Environment (Wales) Act 2023 (asc 3), ss. 201(3)(5), 212(2) (with Sch. 14 paras. 1-3); S.I. 2024/860, art. 3(c)"
    }
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2008/13/section/66",
    "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."
}