Final provisions
Service of notices
22.—(1) Where the penalty notice is served by first class post(1), service is deemed to have been effected, unless the contrary is proved, on the second working day after posting the notice.
(2) In this regulation “working day” means a day other than a Saturday, a Sunday, Christmas Day, Good Friday, or a day which is a bank holiday within the meaning of the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971(2).
Sums received by local education authorities
23.—(1) The functions of a local education authority specified for the purposes of section 444A(6)(3) of the 1996 Act and section 105(5) of the 2006 Act are issuing and enforcing penalty notices, and prosecuting recipients who do not pay.
(2) To the extent that sums received by a local education authority are not used for the purposes of the functions specified in paragraph (1), they must be paid to the Secretary of State.
Revocation and transitional provisions
24.—(1) Subject to paragraphs (2) and (3), the following regulations are revoked—
(a)the Education (Penalty Notices) (England) Regulations 2004(4) (“the 2004 Regulations”);
(b)the Education (Penalty Notices) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2004(5); and
(c)the Education (Penalty Notices) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2005(6).
(2) The 2004 Regulations continue to apply to penalty notices issued before the date on which these Regulations came into force.
(3) A code of conduct drawn up under regulation 12, or drawn up and approved pursuant to regulations 15 and 16, as the case may be, of the 2004 Regulations, and in force immediately before the coming into force of these Regulations, has effect under these Regulations as if drawn up pursuant to regulation 14, or drawn up and approved pursuant to regulation 17 and 18, as the case may require, of these Regulations; but nothing in this paragraph has the effect of applying that code of conduct to penalty notices issued pursuant to section 105 of the 2006 Act.
(4) A penalty notice issued pursuant to the 2004 Regulations is taken into account for the purposes of regulation 14(d) of these Regulations.
Section 572 of the Education Act 1996 makes provision for the service of notices.
Section 444A(6) was inserted by section 110 of the 2006 Act.