{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-animal-welfare-primate-licences-england-regulations-2023/regulation-15",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-animal-welfare-primate-licences-england-regulations-2023/regulation-15.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2023/9780348255423",
  "legislation_title": "The Animal Welfare (Primate Licences) (England) Regulations 2023",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-animal-welfare-primate-licences-england-regulations-2023",
  "path": "regulation/15",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": "Rectification notices",
  "text": "(1) If a local authority that has granted a primate licence considers that the holder of the licence is failing to meet any of the licence conditions, the local authority may serve a notice under this regulation (a “rectification notice”) on the holder of the licence.\n(2) A rectification notice must—\n(a) state that the local authority considers that the holder of the licence is failing to meet a licence condition, and why;\n(b) specify the steps that the local authority considers that the holder of the licence needs to take to comply with the licence condition;\n(c) specify a period not exceeding two years in which those steps are to be taken (“the rectification period”); and\n(d) explain the effect of paragraph (3).\n(3) Where a holder of a primate licence is given a rectification notice—\n(a) no proceedings for an offence under regulation 14 may be instituted before the end of the rectification period in respect of the non-compliance which gave rise to the notice or any continuation of it; and\n(b) if the steps specified in the notice are taken before the end of the rectification period, no such proceedings may be instituted in respect of the non-compliance which gave rise to the notice or any continuation of it prior to the taking of those steps.\n(4) The local authority may extend the rectification period, and may do so more than once, so long as the rectification period as extended does not exceed two years.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2023/9780348255423/regulation/15",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:41:59.682657+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."
}