{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environment-wales-act-2016/schedule-1/paragraph-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environment-wales-act-2016/schedule-1/paragraph-9.json",
  "legislation": "anaw/2016/3",
  "legislation_title": "Environment (Wales) Act 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environment-wales-act-2016",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/9",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) If carrier bag regulations make provision under paragraph 4, they may confer on an administrator the power by notice to require a person on whom a discretionary requirement is imposed to pay the costs incurred by the administrator in relation to the imposition of the discretionary requirement up to the time of its imposition.\n(2) In sub-paragraph (1), the reference to costs includes (among other things)—\n(a) investigation costs;\n(b) administration costs;\n(c) costs of obtaining expert advice (including legal advice).\n(3) Carrier bag regulations that make provision under this paragraph must secure that, in any case where a notice requiring payment of costs is served—\n(a) the notice specifies the amount required to be paid;\n(b) the administrator may be required to provide a detailed breakdown of that amount;\n(c) the person required to pay costs is not liable to pay any costs shown by the person to have been unnecessarily incurred;\n(d) the person required to pay costs may appeal against—\n(i) the decision of the administrator to impose the requirement to pay costs;\n(ii) the decision of the administrator as to the amount of those costs.\n(4) Provision under this paragraph may include the provision referred to in paragraph 8(1)(b) and (c) and (2).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/anaw/2016/3/schedule/1/paragraph/9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:18:15.783470+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."
}