{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/high-hedges-act-northern-ireland-2011/section-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/high-hedges-act-northern-ireland-2011/section-6.json",
  "legislation": "nia/2011/21",
  "legislation_title": "High Hedges Act (Northern Ireland) 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/high-hedges-act-northern-ireland-2011",
  "path": "section/6",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Withdrawal or relaxation of requirements of remedial notice",
  "text": "(1) The council may—\n(a) withdraw a remedial notice issued by it; or\n(b) waive or relax a requirement of a remedial notice so issued.\n(2) The powers conferred by this section are exercisable both before and after a remedial notice has taken effect.\n(3) Where the council exercises the powers conferred by this section, it must give notice of what it has done to—\n(a) every complainant; and\n(b) every owner and every occupier of the neighbouring land.\n(4) The withdrawal of a remedial notice does not affect the power of the council to issue a further remedial notice in respect of the same hedge.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 6 in operation at 31.3.2012 by S.R. 2012/20, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2011/21/section/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:20:45.115959+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."
}