Regulation 10 Compliance notices

England and Wales

(1)

This regulation applies where either or both the Secretary of State (in England) and the F1Welsh Ministers (in Wales) is of the opinion that a person is a manufacturer placing on the market fertiliser that does not comply with the Community Regulation, but that person has not committed an offence under regulations 3 to 9.

(2)

The Secretary of State and the Welsh Ministers may each serve a notice in writing on the person in question giving reasons why he, or as the case may be, F2they, is of that opinion and requiring him to take such steps as are specified in the notice within such period (being not less than 14 days except in an emergency) as is so specified.

(3)

The steps to be so specified are steps that the Secretary of State, or the Welsh Ministers, as the case may be, regards as appropriate to cause him, or F3them, no longer to be of the opinion in paragraph (1).

(4)

Failure to comply with such a notice is an offence unless the notice has been withdrawn.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: Words in reg. 10 substituted (15.3.2019) by The Fertilisers and Ammonium Nitrate Material (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/601), regs. 1(2), 4(2)(a)
F2: Word in reg. 10(2) substituted (15.3.2019) by The Fertilisers and Ammonium Nitrate Material (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/601), regs. 1(2), 4(3)(a)
F3: Word in reg. 10(3) substituted (15.3.2019) by The Fertilisers and Ammonium Nitrate Material (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/601), regs. 1(2), 4(3)(b)