# The Single Use Carrier Bags Charge (Wales) Regulations 2010, Paragraph 2: Power to impose non-compliance penalties

Extent: E+W

(1) If a seller fails to comply with a non-monetary discretionary requirement an administrator may by notice impose a non-compliance penalty on the seller.
(2) A non-compliance penalty may be imposed in respect of a complete or partial failure to comply with a non-monetary discretionary requirement.
(3) A non-compliance penalty may be imposed irrespective of whether a variable monetary penalty was imposed in addition to the non-discretionary requirement to which the non-compliance penalty relates.
(4) The amount of a non-compliance penalty is to be determined by the administrator.
(5) But the maximum penalty which may be imposed by an administrator as a non-compliance penalty is the amount specified in sub-paragraph (6) by reference to the kind of failure concerned.
(6) The maximum penalties are—
(a) £5,000 in relation to a partial failure;
(b) £5,000 in relation to a complete failure.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2010/2880/schedule/4/paragraph/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/single-use-carrier-bags-charge-wales-regulations-2010/schedule-4/paragraph-2
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