{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/waste-england-and-wales-regulations-2011/regulation-42",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/waste-england-and-wales-regulations-2011/regulation-42.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2011/988",
  "legislation_title": "The Waste (England and Wales) Regulations 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/waste-england-and-wales-regulations-2011",
  "path": "regulation/42",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "42",
  "heading": "Offence and penalties",
  "text": "(1) A person is guilty of an offence who—\n(a) if they are not a specified person, fails to comply with regulation 25; or\n(b) fails to comply with a compliance notice, stop notice or restoration notice.\n(2) A person guilty of an offence under—\n(a) paragraph (1)(a); or\n(b) paragraph (1)(b) in relation to contravention of regulation 25,\nis liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale.\n(3) A person guilty of an offence under paragraph (1)(b) in relation to contravention of regulation 12(1), 13(2) or 14(1) is liable—\n(a) on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum;\n(b) on conviction on indictment, to a fine.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in reg. 42(3) substituted (1.10.2012) by The Waste (England and Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/1889), regs. 1(2), 2(4)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2011/988/regulation/42",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:10:22.497788+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."
}