Paragraph 1 F1

Section 10 is to be read as if, for subsection (1), there were substituted—

“(1)

If an authorised officer of an enforcement authority has reasonable grounds for believing that a person is failing to comply with a specified provision of the Regulation, the authorised officer may, by a notice served on that person (in this Act referred to as an “improvement notice”)—

(a)

state the officer’s grounds for believing that the person is failing to comply with a specified provision of the Regulation;

(b)

specify the matters which constitute the person’s failure so to comply;

(c)

specify the measures which, in the officer’s opinion, the person must take in order to secure compliance; and

(d)

require the person to take those measures, or measures which are at least equivalent to them, within such period (not being less than 14 days) as may be specified in the notice.”.