{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/waste-separation-requirements-wales-regulations-2023/schedule-2/paragraph-18",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/waste-separation-requirements-wales-regulations-2023/schedule-2/paragraph-18.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2023/1290",
  "legislation_title": "The Waste Separation Requirements (Wales) Regulations 2023",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/waste-separation-requirements-wales-regulations-2023",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/18",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": "Criminal proceedings",
  "text": "(1) If—\n(a) a variable monetary penalty is imposed on any person, or\n(b) a third party undertaking is accepted from any person,\nthat person must not at any time be convicted of the offence in respect of the act or omission giving rise to the variable monetary penalty or third party undertaking except in a case referred to in sub-paragraph (2).\n(2) The case referred to in sub-paragraph (1) is a case where—\n(a) a third party undertaking is accepted from a person,\n(b) no variable monetary penalty is imposed on that person, and\n(c) that person fails to comply with the third party undertaking.\n(3) Criminal proceedings for offences triable summarily to which a third party undertaking in sub-paragraph (2) relates may be instituted at any time up to six months from the date when the regulator notifies the person that the person has failed to comply with that undertaking.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 18 in force at 6.4.2024, see reg. 1(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2023/1290/schedule/2/paragraph/18",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:02:20.738684+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."
}