# The Explosives Regulations 2014, Paragraph 22: Action by enforcing authority


(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—
(a) the Executive has been unable to identify any economic operator on whom to serve such a notice; or
(b) the economic operator on whom such a notice has been served has failed to comply with it.
(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.
(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.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2014/1638/schedule/12/paragraph/22 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/explosives-regulations-2014/schedule-12/paragraph-22
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