{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/transparency-of-lobbying-non-party-campaigning-and-trade-union-administration-act-2014/section-20",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/transparency-of-lobbying-non-party-campaigning-and-trade-union-administration-act-2014/section-20.json",
  "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/20",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "20",
  "heading": "Further provision about civil penalties",
  "text": "Regulations may make further provision about civil penalties; and in particular may—\n(a) specify circumstances in which a penalty may not be imposed;\n(b) specify steps that the Registrar must take before imposing a penalty;\n(c) set a minimum for the period which must be specified under section 15(2)(d) or 16(2)(d);\n(d) require other matters to be specified in a notice under either of those sections;\n(e) specify a maximum period that may elapse between the service of a notice under section 15 and the service of a penalty notice under section 16;\n(f) provide for the reviewing of a decision to impose a penalty;\n(g) make provision about the variation or cancellation under section 16(7) of penalty notices;\n(h) impose duties on the Registrar about the keeping of accounts and other records in relation to penalties;\n(i) allow for the charging of interest, or an additional penalty, if a penalty is paid late.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 20 partly in force; s. 20 in force for certain purposes at Royal Assent, see s. 45(3)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 20 in force at 1.4.2015 in so far as not already in force 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/20",
    "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."
}