Part 4: New Technology Chapter 1: Low-Carbon Heat Schemes Section 148: Enforcement, penalties and offences
This section provides for the regulations to enable the administrator to conduct a range of enforcement activities. It also provides for the regulations to specify civil penalties for non-compliance with requirements of a scheme and to create criminal offences. Subsection (7) specifies that the sanction for such offences would be a fine. Non-compliance could include, for instance, failure to provide required information, failure to make payments in lieu of unmet targets, or making false or fraudulent representation to the scheme administrator.
	Subsection (2) provides for the regulations to specify conditions in which an administrator may treat one party’s targets or activities under the scope of the scheme as another’s. This would allow, for instance, for targets and activities towards meeting targets to be applied to a group of parties collectively, rather than at the level of individual companies or subsidiaries.