Schedule 12: OFCOM’s powers of entry, inspection and audit Penalty notices etc Section 141: Non-payment of fee
Section 84 explains where OFCOM may require a provider of a regulated service to pay a fee. Schedule 10 also provides for fees to be charged to providers to enable OFCOM to recover costs they have incurred undertaking work which directly or indirectly prepares OFCOM for their future role as the online safety regulator. If a provider of a regulated service does not pay its fee, either under section 84 or Schedule 10, to OFCOM in full, OFCOM may give that provider a notice specifying the outstanding sum and the date by which it must be paid.
	Section 142 allows OFCOM to give a penalty notice to a provider of a regulated service who does not pay the fee due to OFCOM in full. OFCOM may only impose such a penalty where they have first notified the provider that they propose to do so in a notice issued under this section and then given the provider the opportunity to make representations. OFCOM must also be satisfied that the unpaid fee is outstanding.