{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-waste-england-and-wales-regulations-2011/regulation-39",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-waste-england-and-wales-regulations-2011/regulation-39.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2011/9780111506462",
  "legislation_title": "The Waste (England and Wales) Regulations 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-waste-england-and-wales-regulations-2011",
  "path": "regulation/39",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "39",
  "heading": "Stop notices",
  "text": "(1) A “stop notice” is a notice prohibiting a person from carrying on an activity specified in the notice until the person has taken the steps specified in the notice.\n(2) If the Environment Agency considers that a person is carrying on an activity in contravention of regulation 12(1), 13(1), 14(1) or 25 it may serve a stop notice on that person.\n(3) If a regulation authority considers that a person is carrying on an activity in contravention of section 1 of the 1989 Act it may serve a stop notice on that person.\n(4) A stop notice must—\n(a) state the authority’s reason for serving it;\n(b) specify the matters constituting the contravention;\n(c) specify the steps which must be taken to remedy the contravention;\n(d) give information as to the rights of appeal (including the period within which an appeal must be brought).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2011/9780111506462/regulation/39",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:54:04.914050+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."
}