{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sunbeds-act-northern-ireland-2011/section-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sunbeds-act-northern-ireland-2011/section-12.json",
  "legislation": "nia/2011/19",
  "legislation_title": "Sunbeds Act (Northern Ireland) 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sunbeds-act-northern-ireland-2011",
  "path": "section/12",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Fixed penalties for certain offences",
  "text": "(1) Where an authorised officer of a district council has reason to believe that a person has committed an offence under section 1, 2 or 4 to 9 within the district of that council, the authorised officer may give the person a fixed penalty notice in respect of the offence.\n(2) A fixed penalty notice is a notice offering a person the opportunity to discharge any liability to conviction for the offence to which the notice relates by paying a penalty in accordance with this Act.\n(3) Schedule 2 makes further provision about fixed penalties.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 12 in operation at 13.2.2012 for specified purposes by S.R. 2012/41, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 12 in operation at 1.5.2012 in so far as not already in operation by S.R. 2012/90, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2011/19/section/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:20:46.542723+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."
}