Section 56: Final notices
155.Section 56 sets out the contents of a final notice, requiring payment following a determination under section 55 that a public authority should be required to pay. This will deal with all parts of the EU financial sanction including the lump sum, periodic payments already due from the UK and future periodic payments. The Minister may terminate the requirement to make payments towards future periodic payments, or vary it to make it less onerous, if he or she sees fit due to changing circumstances, either on the application of the public authority or of his or her own motion. If such an application is made then, while the application is being considered the Minister may suspend any payments which would otherwise fall due, but this does not affect the liability to make any payment once the suspension is ended, unless the Minister so decides. The Minister may consult the independent panel, and seek representations from the public authority and any appropriate national authority, before reducing or terminating the requirement to pay.