PART 3ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATION
CHAPTER 2SEPA’S POWERS OF ENFORCEMENT
Operation of penalties and cost recovery
29Monetary penalties
(1)
An order under this Chapter which confers power on SEPA to require a person to pay a fixed monetary penalty, a variable monetary penalty or a non-compliance penalty may include provision for—
(a)
early payment discounts,
(b)
the payment of interest or other financial penalties for late payment of the penalty (such interest or other financial penalties not in total to exceed the amount of the penalty),
(c)
enforcement of the penalty.
(2)
Where such provision is included, it may also provide for—
(a)
SEPA to recover the penalty, and any interest or other financial penalty for late payment, as a civil debt,
(b)
the penalty, and any interest or other financial penalty for late payment, to be recoverable as if it were payable under an extract registered decree arbitral bearing a warrant for execution issued by a sheriff of any sheriffdom.