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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/transparency-of-lobbying-non-party-campaigning-and-trade-union-administration-act-2014/section-18",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2014/4",
  "legislation_title": "Transparency of Lobbying, Non-Party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Act 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/transparency-of-lobbying-non-party-campaigning-and-trade-union-administration-act-2014",
  "path": "section/18",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": "Civil penalties and criminal proceedings",
  "text": "(1) The Registrar may not impose a civil penalty on a person in respect of any conduct—\n(a) at any time after criminal proceedings for an offence under this Part have been instituted against the person in respect of that conduct and before those proceedings have been concluded, or\n(b) after the person has been convicted of an offence under this Part in respect of that conduct.\n(2) If the Registrar has imposed a civil penalty on a person in respect of any conduct, the person may not be convicted of an offence under this Part in respect of that conduct.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 18 in force at 1.4.2015 by S.I. 2015/954, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2014/4/section/18",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:07:51.976325+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."
}