{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-noise-england-regulations-2006/regulation-26",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-noise-england-regulations-2006/regulation-26.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2006/2238",
  "legislation_title": "The Environmental Noise (England) Regulations 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-noise-england-regulations-2006",
  "path": "regulation/26",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "26",
  "heading": "Powers",
  "text": "(1) The Secretary of State may at any time require a competent authority to provide information in relation to its functions under these Regulations.\n(2) A request for information pursuant to paragraph (1)—\n(a) must be made in writing;\n(b) may specify the format in which information must be provided; and\n(c) may specify the period of time within which a response must be received.\n(3) If an authority receives a request pursuant to paragraph (1) it must respond—\n(a) within the time period specified pursuant to paragraph (2)(c); or\n(b) if no such period is specified, within fourteen days of receipt of the request.\n(4) Paragraph (5) applies where—\n(a) the Secretary of State has consulted the competent authority; and\n(b) he considers that by reason of any act or omission, or any likely act or omission, by the competent authority—\n(i) a requirement of these Regulations; ...\n(ii) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\nis unlikely to be met.\n(5) The Secretary of State may exercise such of the functions of the competent authority as he considers appropriate.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in reg. 26(4)(b)(i) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Environment (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/458), regs. 1(1), 6(6)(a); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. 26(4)(b)(ii) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Environment (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/458), regs. 1(1), 6(6)(b); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2006/2238/regulation/26",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:23:06.793178+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."
}