Article 25 Enforcement notices: supplementaryI1

An enforcement notice served on any person—

Articles 17 and 18 of this Order apply to an enforcement notice as they apply to the direction to which the notice relates.

The ownership of any property shall not be affected by reason only that it is placed on or under or affixed to, any land, building or works in compliance with an enforcement notice.

Where an authorised person has served an enforcement notice specifying the general requirements of a direction with which the person on whom it is served has, in the opinion of the authorised person, failed to comply, the person on whom the notice is served shall not be taken, for the purposes of article 13(8), 14(8), 15(8) or 16(7) of this Order, to have failed to comply with the direction by reason of the matters specified in the notice.

Paragraph (4) above does not apply in relation to any proceedings commenced before the service of the enforcement notice.

Where an enforcement notice has been served in relation to a direction, the fact that the notice specifies certain general requirements of the direction as those with which the person on whom the notice is served has, in the opinion of the authorised person, failed to comply shall not in any proceedings be evidence that any other requirement of the direction has been complied with.

In this article “direction” means a direction under article 13, 14, 15 or 16 of this Order.