{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/official-controls-plant-health-and-genetically-modified-organisms-wales-regulations-2020/schedule-4A/paragraph-21",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/official-controls-plant-health-and-genetically-modified-organisms-wales-regulations-2020/schedule-4A/paragraph-21.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2020/206",
  "legislation_title": "The Official Controls (Plant Health and Genetically Modified Organisms) (Wales) Regulations 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/official-controls-plant-health-and-genetically-modified-organisms-wales-regulations-2020",
  "path": "schedule/4A/paragraph/21",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "21",
  "heading": "Compensation",
  "text": "(1) The appropriate authority must compensate a person for loss suffered as the result of the service of the stop notice or the refusal of a completion certificate if that person has suffered loss as a result of the notice or refusal and—\n(a) the stop notice is subsequently withdrawn or amended by the appropriate authority because the decision to serve it was unreasonable or any step specified in the notice was unreasonable,\n(b) the appropriate authority is in breach of its statutory obligations,\n(c) the person successfully appeals against the stop notice and the First-tier Tribunal finds that the service of the notice was unreasonable, or\n(d) the person successfully appeals against the refusal of a completion certificate and the First-tier Tribunal finds that the refusal was unreasonable.\n(2) A person may appeal against a decision not to award compensation or the amount of compensation on the grounds that—\n(a) the appropriate authority’s decision was unreasonable,\n(b) the amount offered was based on incorrect facts, or\n(c) the decision was wrong for any other reason.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 4A inserted (15.12.2020) by The Official Controls (Plant Health and Genetically Modified Organisms) (Wales) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1303), reg. 1, Sch."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2020/206/schedule/4A/paragraph/21",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:17:12.489673+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."
}