The Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme Order 2020

Hospitals and small emitters: failure to pay civil penalty for exceeding emissions target

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55.—(1) Where the operator of an installation fails to pay a civil penalty (the “first penalty”) under article 54 on or before the due date set out in the penalty notice imposing the first penalty, the operator is liable to a further civil penalty.

(2) The further civil penalty is—

(a)10% of the first penalty; and

(b)a daily penalty at a daily rate of £150 for each day that the operator fails to pay the first penalty beginning with the day on which the initial notice is given, up to a maximum of £13,500.