{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/smoking-northern-ireland-order-2006/schedule-1/paragraph-13",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/smoking-northern-ireland-order-2006/schedule-1/paragraph-13.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/2006/2957",
  "legislation_title": "The Smoking (Northern Ireland) Order 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/smoking-northern-ireland-order-2006",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/13",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "13",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In any proceedings, a certificate is evidence of the facts which it states if it—\n(a) purports to be signed by or on behalf of the person responsible for the financial affairs of the district council or other enforcement authority on whose behalf the authorised officer who gave a penalty notice was acting, and\n(b) states that payment of the penalty or discounted amount in pursuance of the notice was or was not received by a date specified in the certificate.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 1 para. 13(a) substituted (1.2.2022) by The Smoke-Free (Private Vehicles) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2021 (S.R. 2021/328), regs. 1(1), 6(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/2006/2957/schedule/1/paragraph/13",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:39:18.247545+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."
}