Regulation 11 Enforcement authorities

England and Wales

(1)

These Regulations and the Community Regulation shall be enforced by the local authority.

(2)

The local authority shall appoint inspectors for the purposes of these Regulations.

(3)

For the purposes of this Part “local authority” means—

(a)

where there is a unitary authority for a local government area, the authority for that area;

(b)

where there is not a unitary authority—

(i)

in a metropolitan district, the council of that district;

(ii)

in a non-metropolitan county, the council of that county;

(c)

in each London borough, the council of that borough;

(d)

in the City of London, the Common Council;

(e)

in the Isles of Scilly, the Council of the Isles of Scilly;

(f)

in respect of a local government area within Wales, the county council or the county borough council for that area, as the case may be.

(4)

For the purposes of this regulation “unitary authority” means any authority which is the sole principal council for its local government area.