{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/digital-waste-tracking-wales-regulations-2026/regulation-20",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/digital-waste-tracking-wales-regulations-2026/regulation-20.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2026/105",
  "legislation_title": "The Digital Waste Tracking (Wales) Regulations 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/digital-waste-tracking-wales-regulations-2026",
  "path": "regulation/20",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "20",
  "heading": "Enforcement cost recovery notices",
  "text": "(1) Natural Resources Wales may serve a notice (“an enforcement cost recovery notice”) on a person on whom a variable monetary penalty notice under Part 2 of Schedule 2, or a compliance notice under Part 3 of Schedule 2, has been served requiring that person to pay the costs incurred by Natural Resources Wales in relation to the imposition of that notice up to the time of its imposition.\n(2) Costs include in particular—\n(a) investigation costs;\n(b) administration costs;\n(c) costs of obtaining expert advice (including legal advice).\n(3) The enforcement cost recovery notice must specify—\n(a) the grounds for imposing the notice,\n(b) the amount required to be paid,\n(c) how payment is to be made,\n(d) the period within which payment must be made, which must not be less than 28 days beginning with the date on which the notice is served,\n(e) the right of appeal, and\n(f) the consequences of failure to comply with the notice in the specified period.\n(4) The person on whom the enforcement cost recovery notice is served may require Natural Resources Wales to provide a detailed breakdown of the amount.\n(5) The person required to pay costs is not liable to pay the proportion of those costs which are shown by that person to have been unnecessarily incurred.\n(6) The person required to pay costs may appeal to the First-tier Tribunal in accordance with the procedure in regulation 25 against—\n(a) the decision of Natural Resources Wales to impose the requirement to pay costs, or\n(b) the decision of Natural Resources Wales as to the amount of those costs.\n(7) Natural Resources Wales may recover any costs required to be paid under an enforcement cost recovery notice—\n(a) as a civil debt, or\n(b) on the order of a court, as if payable under a court order.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2026/105/regulation/20",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:54:51.092329+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}