Regulation 38 Compliance notices

(1)

A “compliance notice” is a notice requiring a person to take specified steps within a specified period to secure that a contravention does not continue or recur.

(2)

If the Environment Agency considers that a person has contravened or is contravening regulation 12(1), 13(1), 14(1) or 25 it may serve a compliance notice on that person.

(3)

If a regulation authority considers that a person has contravened or is contravening section 1 of the 1989 Act it may serve a compliance notice on that person.

(4)

A compliance notice must—

(a)

state the authority’s reason for serving it;

(b)

specify the matters constituting the contravention;

(c)

specify the steps which must be taken to secure that the contravention does not continue or recur;

(d)

specify the period within which those steps must be taken;

(e)

give information as to the rights of appeal (including the period within which an appeal must be brought).