# The Environmental Impact Assessment (Agriculture) (Wales) Regulations 2017, Regulation 26: Remediation notices

Extent: E+W

(1) If a person has carried out a project on semi-natural and/or uncultivated land or a restructuring project, in breach of regulation 4 or 8, the Welsh Ministers may serve a notice on the person who appears to them to be responsible (“a remediation notice”).
(2) A remediation notice may require the person—
(a) to reinstate, to the Welsh Ministers’ satisfaction, the relevant land to the condition it was in before the project was commenced; or
(b) to take such other steps that the Welsh Ministers consider appropriate to return the land to good environmental condition or to a standard the Welsh Ministers consider reasonable in the circumstances.
(3) A remediation notice must state the period within which the requirements of the notice are to be completed.
(4) The Welsh Ministers may, at any time after issuing a remediation notice—
(a) amend its terms;
(b) extend the period under paragraph (3); or
(c) terminate it.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2017/565/regulation/26 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-impact-assessment-agriculture-wales-regulations-2017/regulation-26
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