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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/small-business-enterprise-and-employment-act-2015/section-55",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2015/26",
  "legislation_title": "Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/small-business-enterprise-and-employment-act-2015",
  "path": "section/55",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "55",
  "heading": "Forms of enforcement",
  "text": "(1) If, as a result of an investigation, the Adjudicator is satisfied that a pub-owning business has failed to comply with the Pubs Code, or has failed to follow a recommendation made under section 56, the Adjudicator may take one or more of the following enforcement measures—\n(a) make recommendations;\n(b) require information to be published;\n(c) impose financial penalties.\n(2) Where an investigation concerns two or more pub-owning businesses, the Adjudicator may decide—\n(a) to take different enforcement measures against different businesses,\n(b) not to take any enforcement measures against one or more of the businesses.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 55 in force at 21.7.2016 by S.I. 2016/532, reg. 3"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2015/26/section/55",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:06:47.994452+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."
}