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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-reservoirs-enforcement-etc-scotland-order-2016/schedule-1/paragraph-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-reservoirs-enforcement-etc-scotland-order-2016/schedule-1/paragraph-4.json",
  "legislation": "sdsi/2016/9780111030844",
  "legislation_title": "The Reservoirs (Enforcement etc.) (Scotland) Order 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-reservoirs-enforcement-etc-scotland-order-2016",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/4",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Completion certificates",
  "text": "(1) Where, after giving a stop notice to a reservoir manager, SEPA is satisfied that the reservoir manager has taken the steps specified in the notice, SEPA must give a certificate to that effect (a “completion certificate”).\n(2) The stop notice ceases to have effect on the giving of a completion certificate.\n(3) The reservoir manager to whom the stop notice is given may at any time apply for a completion certificate.\n(4) SEPA must make a decision as to whether to give a completion certificate before the end of a period of 14 days beginning with the day on which the application for the certificate was made.\n(5) Where SEPA decides to give a completion certificate, it must give the completion certificate to the reservoir manager within a period of 14 days beginning with the day of that decision.\n(6) Where SEPA decides not to give a completion certificate, it must give the reservoir manager notice in writing of that decision within a period of 14 days beginning with the day of that decision.\n(7) The reservoir manager to whom the stop notice is given may appeal to the Scottish Ministers against a decision not to give a completion certificate.\n(8) The appeal must be made within a period of 14 days beginning with the relevant day.\n(9) The appeal may be made on any ground including that—\n(a) the decision was based on an error of fact;\n(b) the decision was wrong in law; or\n(c) the decision was unfair or unreasonable.\n(10) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (7), a failure by SEPA, before the end of a period of 28 days beginning with the day on which the application for the certificate was made, to—\n(a) make a decision as to whether to give the certificate; and\n(b) comply with, as the case may be, sub-paragraph (5) or (6),\nis to be treated as a decision not to give the completion certificate in question.\n(11) In sub-paragraph (8), “the relevant day”—\n(a) in a case where sub-paragraph (10) applies, is the first day on which the failure in question is treated as a decision not to give the completion certificate; and\n(b) in other cases, is the day on which the reservoir manager is, in accordance with sub-paragraph (6), given notice of the decision not to give a completion certificate.",
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  "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."
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