Digital Services Act 2024
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Daily payment for failure to comply with notice to end contravention | ||
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74. (1) Where the Commission gives a notice under section 73 to a provider, the Commission may, for the purpose of enforcing the notice, impose a penalty of a daily payment (in this section referred to as a “daily payment penalty”) on the provider. | ||
(2) Before the Commission makes a decision to impose a daily payment penalty on a provider, the Commission shall give the provider a notice in writing which— | ||
(a) states that if the provider fails to take the steps stated under section 73 (2)(a) by a date specified in the notice under this subsection, the Commission intends to impose a daily payment penalty on the provider for each day during which the failure continues, beginning with the day following that date, | ||
(b) states why it appears to the Commission to be necessary to impose the penalty, | ||
(c) states the maximum daily amount of the penalty that the Commission may impose, and | ||
(d) invites the provider to make written submissions to the Commission regarding the matters to which the notice relates within the period specified in the notice or such further period as the Commission may allow. | ||
(3) The date specified under subsection (2)(a)— | ||
(a) may not be earlier than the end of the period specified under section 73 (2)(b), and | ||
(b) may not be earlier than the date on which the notice under subsection (2) is given. | ||
(4) The amount of a penalty imposed under this section shall not exceed, for each day during which the failure referred to in subsection (2)(a) continues, 5 per cent of the provider’s average daily turnover in the preceding financial year. | ||
(5) Where the provider fails to take the steps stated under section 73 (2)(a) by the date specified in the notice under subsection (2), the Commission, after considering any written submissions made by the provider within the period referred to in subsection (2)(d), may— | ||
(a) determine the daily amount of the penalty to be imposed, and the date on which it is to commence, and | ||
(b) by notice in writing to the provider, impose the penalty. | ||
(6) A decision of the Commission to impose a daily payment penalty under this section does not take effect unless it is confirmed on appeal under section 68 or on summary application under section 69 , as those sections apply in accordance with section 75 . |