Penalty guidance

Contents: The SSRO’s penalties guidance is statutory guidance to which the Ministry of Defence must have regard when determining the amount of penalty to issue to contractors for breaching the regulations.

Contents

• Introduction

• 1. About this guidance

• 2. Application of this Guidance

• Determining the amount of penalty

• 3. Factors to determine amount of penalty

• 4. Factors tending to decrease the level of any penalty

• 5. Repeated and persistent contraventions

• 6. Final amount of penalty

• 7. Discount for early settlement

• 8. Transitional arrangement

• 9. Public reporting of penalty notice

• 10. Determinations

• Annex A: Maximum penalty amounts