Regulation 18 Enforcement: directions
Where the Secretary of State—
(a)
has served a notice on a transferor authority under section 13 of the Act, or on a successor authority under regulation 17 above, and
(b)
the time specified in the notice has expired (whether or not he has received a written response to the notice), and
(c)
it still appears to him that the authority specified in the notice have acted as mentioned in the paragraph concerned of section 13(1),
section 14 of the Act shall apply in relation to that notice as if references to the authority or body were references to the successor authority.