Petroleum (Onshore) Regulation 2016
52Penalty notice offences and penalties: section 125N
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52 Penalty notice offences and penalties: section 125N
52 Penalty notice offences and penalties: section 125N
(Former clause 29 of 2007 Reg)
(1) For the purposes of section 125N of the Act—
(a) each offence created by a provision specified in Column 1 of Schedule 2 is an offence for which a penalty notice may be served, and
(b) the penalty prescribed for each such offence is—
(i) in the case of an offence committed by an individual—the amount specified opposite the provision in Column 2 of the Schedule, or
(ii) in the case of an offence committed by a body corporate—the amount specified opposite the provision in Column 3 of the Schedule.
(2) If the reference to a provision in Column 1 of Schedule 2 is qualified by words that restrict its operation to specified kinds of offences, an offence created by the provision is a prescribed offence only if it is an offence of a kind so specified or committed in the circumstances so specified.