# The Environmental Impact Assessment (Forestry) (England and Wales) Regulations 1999, Regulation 22: Penalties for non-compliance with enforcement notices

Extent: E+W

(1) Any person who carries out work in relation to a relevant project in contravention of a requirement to discontinue that work in an enforcement notice served on him in accordance with regulation 20 shall be guilty of an offence and liable—
(a) on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum, or
(b) on conviction on indictment to a fine.
(2) Any person on whom an enforcement notice has been served in accordance with regulation 20 who fails, within the period specified in the enforcement notice, to carry out any measure, other than discontinuance of the relevant project, required by the enforcement notice shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale.
(3) Where an offence under paragraph (1) or (2) above which has been committed by a body corporate is proved to have been committed with the consent or connivance of, or to be attributable to any neglect on the part of—
(a) any director, manager, secretary or other similar officer of the body corporate; or
(b) any person who was purporting to act in any such capacity,
he as well as the body corporate shall be guilty of the offence and shall be liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/2228/regulation/22 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-impact-assessment-forestry-england-and-wales-regulations-1999/regulation-22
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