Explanatory Notes

Health and Social Care Act 2012

2012 CHAPTER 7

27 March 2012

Commentary on Sections

Part 3 - Regulation of Health and Adult Social Care Services

Chapter 3 – Licensing
Enforcement
Schedule 11 - Further provision about enforcement powers
Part 1 - Discretionary requirements
Recovery of financial penalties and payments of penalties etc. into Consolidated Fund

839.Both variable monetary penalties and non-compliance penalties are recoverable summarily as a civil debt (paragraph 7). Monitor must pay money it received from penalties into the Consolidated Fund: it would not retain any element of the fines it imposed (paragraph 8).