PART 5U.K.MUTUAL RECOGNITION OF FINANCIAL PENALTIES

[F1Transitional and saving provision: decisions requiring payment of financial penalties received before IP completion dayU.K.

20.(1) The following provisions of the 2008 Act continue to apply, as if they had not been revoked by regulation 19, to relevant decisions requiring payment of financial penalties—

(a)regulation 80(2) to (5);

(b)regulations 81 to 90A;

(c)regulation 91(1) and (2)

(d)regulation 92;

(e)Schedule 18;

(f)Schedule 19;

(g)paragraph 29(2) to (4) of Schedule 27.

(2) A relevant decision requiring payment of a financial penalty is one received, with a certificate requesting enforcement of a penalty, before IP completion day by—

(a)the central authority or competent authority of a member State under section 81(3) or (as the case may be) under section 83(3) of the 2008 Act (procedure on issue of certificate: England and Wales and procedure on issue of certificate; Northern Ireland), or by any other authority of the member State with no jurisdiction to enforce a penalty but which transmits the decision and certificate to the competent authority; or

(b)the Lord Chancellor or Department of Justice in Northern Ireland under section 84(1) or (as the case may be) under section 87(1) of the 2008 Act (requests from other member States: England and Wales and requests from other member States: Northern Ireland), or by any other authority in England and Wales or Northern Ireland with no jurisdiction to enforce a penalty but which transmits the decision and certificate to the competent authority.

(3) For the purposes of this regulation—

(a)“central authority” and “competent authority” has the same meaning as in section 92(1) of the 2008 (interpretation of sections 80 to 91 etc.);

(b)“a certificate requesting enforcement” has the same meaning as in section 92(3) of the 2008 Act;

(c)for the purposes of this regulation, the provisions of the 2008 Act referred to in paragraph (1) are to be read as if the term “member State” included the United Kingdom.]

Textual Amendments

F1Reg. 20 substituted (31.12.2020 immediately before IP completion day) by The Law Enforcement and Security (Separation Issues etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1408), regs. 1, 50

Commencement Information

I1Reg. 20 in force at 31.12.2020 on IP completion day (in accordance with 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)), see reg. 1(1)