# The Fluorinated Greenhouse Gases Regulations 2015, Paragraph 2: Appeals against notices served by the Scottish Ministers


(1) A person on whom an enforcement notice, a civil penalty notice or an enforcement cost recovery notice is served by the Scottish Ministers may appeal against it to the sheriff.
(2) The appeal must be made within 28 days beginning with the day on which the notice is served.
(3) A person bringing an appeal under sub-paragraph (1) may withdraw the appeal at any time before the appeal is determined.
(4) Where an appeal is made under sub-paragraph (1), the notice is suspended until the appeal is withdrawn or determined by the sheriff in accordance with sub-paragraph (5).
(5) The sheriff may, without prejudice to any other powers the sheriff may exercise—
(a) affirm the notice;
(b) direct the Scottish Ministers to vary or withdraw the notice;
(c) impose such other enforcement notice, civil penalty notice or, as the case may be, enforcement cost recovery notice as the sheriff thinks fit.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/310/schedule/5/paragraph/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/fluorinated-greenhouse-gases-regulations-2015/schedule-5/paragraph-2
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