The Single Use Carrier Bags Charge (Wales) Regulations 2010

Publicity for imposition of civil sanctions

18.—(1) An administrator may give a publicity notice to a seller on whom a civil sanction has been imposed(1).

(2) The following is the information specified for the purposes of paragraph 19(2)(b) of Schedule 6 to the Climate Change Act 2008—

(a) the type of civil sanction concerned;

(b) the grounds on which the sanction was imposed;

(c) if the sanction was a fixed or variable monetary penalty, the amount of that penalty;

(d) if the sanction was a non-monetary discretionary requirement, the nature of the requirement in question.

(3) A publicity notice must—

(a) specify the manner of publication required;

(b) specify the time for compliance with the notice;

(c) require the seller to provide evidence of compliance with the notice within a time specified in the notice.

(4) If a seller fails to comply with a publicity notice within the time specified under paragraph (3)(b), the administrator may—

(a) publicise the information required to be publicised by the notice; and

(b) recover the costs of doing so from the seller in question.

(5) Where an administrator publicises information under paragraph (4)(a) it must do so in a way it considers most likely to bring the information to the attention of members of the public in its area.

(1)

For the meaning of “publicity notice” see paragraph 19(2) of Schedule 6 to the Climate Change Act 2008.