{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/explosives-regulations-2014/schedule-12/paragraph-22",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/explosives-regulations-2014/schedule-12/paragraph-22.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2014/1638",
  "legislation_title": "The Explosives Regulations 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/explosives-regulations-2014",
  "path": "schedule/12/paragraph/22",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "22",
  "heading": "Action by enforcing authority",
  "text": "(1) The Executive may itself take action which an economic operator could have been required to take by a notice served under or by virtue of Parts 1 or 2 of this Schedule where the conditions for serving such a notice are met and either—\n(a) the Executive has been unable to identify any economic operator on whom to serve such a notice; or\n(b) the economic operator on whom such a notice has been served has failed to comply with it.\n(2) If the Executive has taken action as a result of the condition in paragraph (1)(b) being met, the Executive may recover from the economic operator, as a civil debt, any costs or expenses reasonably incurred by the Executive in taking the action.\n(3) A civil debt recoverable under paragraph (2) may be recovered summarily in England and Wales by way of a complaint pursuant to section 58 of the Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 12 substituted (20.4.2016) by The Explosives Regulations 2014 (Amendment) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/315), reg. 1, Sch. 1 (with regs. 2(1), 15)"
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2014/1638/schedule/12/paragraph/22",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:12:11.455629+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."
}