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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-damage-prevention-and-remediation-wales-regulations-2009/regulation-23",
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  "legislation": "wsi/2009/995",
  "legislation_title": "The Environmental Damage (Prevention and Remediation) (Wales) Regulations 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-damage-prevention-and-remediation-wales-regulations-2009",
  "path": "regulation/23",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "23",
  "heading": "Action by the enforcing authority",
  "text": "Once it has established that in its opinion damage is environmental damage, the enforcing authority may carry out any reasonable works—\n(a) at any time if a responsible operator cannot be identified;\n(b) if a responsible operator fails to comply with a remediation notice, whether or not an appeal is pending; or\n(c) if the responsible operator is not required to remediate under these Regulations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2009/995/regulation/23",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:56:23.869241+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."
}