Part 3: Enforcement of consumer protection law Chapter 5: Monetary penalties: general provision Section 206: Recovery of monetary penalties
This section provides that if the period during which an appeal against a penalty may be made has expired without an appeal having been made, or where an appeal has been determined, withdrawn or disposed of the CMA may commence proceedings to recover the penalty and any unpaid interest as a civil debt (subsections (1) to (3)).
	Subsections (4) and (5) provide that where the CMA has given a final infringement notice requiring the payment of both a penalty and consumer compensation as an enhanced consumer measure, it must first consider whether any of the compensation it has ordered is due to consumers and it may choose to delay commencing penalty recovery proceedings until affected consumers get their money back. This means the CMA can be flexible in weighing up the direct benefit to affected consumers from receiving compensation against the need to enforce a penalty as soon as feasible. Such flexibility is desirable where an enforcement subject may lack sufficient financial resources to pay both compensation and the monetary penalty.