Explanatory Notes

Environment (Wales) Act 2016

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21 March 2016

Commentary on Sections

Schedule 1 – Charges for Carrier Bags: Civil Sanctions

Fixed Monetary Penalties

330.Paragraph 2 provides that the carrier bag regulations may give an administrator a power to impose a fixed monetary penalty not exceeding £5,000 on any person who breaches the regulations. Notices imposing fixed monetary penalties may only be issued in cases where the administrator is satisfied on the balance of probabilities that a breach of the regulations has occurred.