Part 11: Energy Savings Opportunity Schemes Section 261: Enforcement, penalties and offences
This section makes provision about the enforcement of ESOS, enables offences to be created and details the powers of the scheme administrator to impose penalties.
	Subsection (1) enables ESOS regulations to authorise a scheme administrator to exercise various enforcement powers, including to obtain information and evidence, for example by entering premises with a warrant and seizing documents or records, and to issue notices requiring participants to demonstrate compliance with requirements or to remedy a failure to comply.
	Subsections (2) to (4) enable regulations to provide that a person may be liable to penalties if they fail to comply with the regulations or provide false or misleading information, and that participants may be required to notify the scheme administrator that they have failed to comply or are likely to do so. The penalty for a failure to comply may include publication of specified information or a financial penalty.
	Subsection (5) enables regulations to make further provisions relating to financial penalties.
	Subsections (6) to (9) provide that regulations may also create offences and set out further details in relation to those offences, including procedural requirements and potential liability for individuals.