Non-payment after 28 days (late payment penalty)
- Pay fixed monetary penalty within 28 days or face 50% increase
Welsh Statutory Instrument
2025
Wales
The Food (Promotion and Presentation) (Wales) Regulations 2025
At a glance
What's here
10 compliance obligations, 1 practical guide
Penalty landscape
1 of 10 obligations carry an unlimited fine. 9 have no criminal penalty — flagged in the list below.
Who this Act binds
Plus 5 non-business duties on Crown ministers, regulators, local authorities or tribunals — shown collapsed under each section below.
Relevant guidance
Practical guides for businesses affected by this Act, ordered by how closely they engage with it.
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1 guidesWhat this Act requires
Sections that create concrete duties on businesses or carry penalties. Procedural and definitional sections are folded into the “Browse other sections” expander at the bottom of each group. Click any section title to read the source text on legislation.gov.uk.
Schedules
Notice of intent
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Food authority must serve notice of intent before imposing a fixed penalty Local authority
Making representations and objections
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Food authority must decide on fixed monetary penalty after representation period Local authority
Service of final notice
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Food authority must not serve final notice if you have a legal defence Local authority
Contents of final notice
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Enforcement authority must include required details in final penalty notice Local authority
Browse 35 other Schedules — structural / supplementary
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Imposition of a fixed monetary penalty
Recovery of payments
Criminal proceedings
Withdrawing a notice
Discharge of liability
Discount for early payment
Appeals against a final notice
Appeals
Section 21 applies as if— (a) in subsection (2), the...
Section 37(5) applies as if— (a) “or (4)” were omitted,...
Section 37(6) applies as if— (a) “or (4)” were omitted,...
Section 39 applies as if— (a) the references to an...
Section 49(4) applies as if “and of any regulations and...
Section 32(1)(a) applies as if “or of regulations or orders...
Section 32(6)(a) applies as if “or of regulations or orders...
Section 34 applies as if for “section 35(2) below” there...
Section 35(1) applies as if the reference to section 33(1)...
Section 35(2) applies as if for “any other offence under...
The heading to section 37 applies as if the reference...
Section 37(1) applies as if there were substituted—
Section 37(3) applies as if “or an appeal to such...
Restriction on the price promotion of specified food
- Do not offer volume price promotions on specified food
Restriction on the presentation of specified food – online
- Restrict where and when specified food appears on your online marketplace
Restriction on the price promotion of certain drinks
- Do not offer free refill promotions on unhealthy non-prepacked drinks
Enforcement
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Food authorities must enforce food promotion and presentation rules in their area Local authority
Offence
Unlimited fine- Fail to comply with an improvement notice
Browse 11 other sections — procedural / definitional / commencement
Title, extent, application and coming into force
Interpretation
Specified food
Qualifying businesses
Restriction on the presentation of specified food – in store
Improvement notice
Civil sanction
Guidance as to use of fixed monetary penalties
Publication of enforcement action
Review
Application and modification of the Act
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