{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-protection-single-use-vapes-wales-regulations-2024/schedule/paragraph-11",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-protection-single-use-vapes-wales-regulations-2024/schedule/paragraph-11.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2024/1324",
  "legislation_title": "The Environmental Protection (Single-use Vapes) (Wales) Regulations 2024",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-protection-single-use-vapes-wales-regulations-2024",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/11",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "11",
  "heading": "Stop notices",
  "text": "(1) A regulator may serve a stop notice on any person in a case falling within sub-paragraph (3) or (4).\n(2) A “stop notice” is a notice prohibiting a person from carrying on an activity specified in the notice until the person has taken the steps specified in the notice.\n(3) A case falling within this sub-paragraph is a case where—\n(a) the person is carrying out the activity;\n(b) the regulator reasonably believes that the activity as carried on by that person is causing, or presents a significant risk of causing, serious harm to the environment (including the health of animals); and\n(c) the regulator reasonably believes that the activity as carried on by that person involves, or is likely to involve, the commission of an offence under Part 2 of these Regulations.\n(4) A case falling within this sub-paragraph is a case where the regulator reasonably believes that—\n(a) the person is likely to carry on the activity,\n(b) the activity as likely to be carried on by that person will cause, or will present a significant risk of causing, serious harm to the environment (including the health of animals); and\n(c) the activity as likely to be carried on by that person will involve, or will be likely to involve, the commission of an offence under Part 2 of these Regulations.\n(5) The steps referred to in sub-paragraph (2) must be steps to remove or reduce the harm or risk of harm to the environment (including the health of animals).\n(6) A stop notice may not be served where a fixed monetary penalty has been imposed on a person in relation to the same act or omission, or the person has discharged liability to a fixed monetary penalty in relation to the same act or omission.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. para. 11 in force at 1.6.2025, see reg. 1(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2024/1324/schedule/paragraph/11",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:59:10.113428+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."
}