Regulation 4 Imposition of penalty charges

Regulation 4 shall be amended as follows.

For paragraph (4), there shall be substituted—

“(4)

A charging scheme shall specify the time in which any penalty charge imposed by it under paragraph (1) is to be paid and shall provide that the amount of such a penalty charge—

(a)

is to be reduced by the amount or proportion and to the sum specified in that behalf in the scheme if it is duly paid within such shorter time as is so specified; and

(b)

is to be increased by the amount or proportion and to the sum so specified if not duly paid before the end of the relevant period as defined by regulation 17(2) or (3), as the case may be, of the Enforcement Regulations.”