{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/personal-protective-equipment-enforcement-regulations-2018/regulation-17",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/personal-protective-equipment-enforcement-regulations-2018/regulation-17.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2018/390",
  "legislation_title": "The Personal Protective Equipment (Enforcement) Regulations 2018",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/personal-protective-equipment-enforcement-regulations-2018",
  "path": "regulation/17",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Action by enforcement authority",
  "text": "(1) An enforcement authority may itself take any action which an economic operator could have been required to take by a notice served under regulation 5 (enforcement powers) where the conditions for serving such a notice are met and either—\n(a) the enforcement authority has been unable to identify any economic operator on whom to serve such a notice; or\n(b) the economic operator on whom such a notice has been served has failed to comply with it.\n(2) If the enforcement authority has taken action under paragraph (1) following the failure of an economic operator to comply with a notice, the authority may recover from that person as a civil debt any costs or expenses incurred by the enforcement authority in taking the action.\n(3) A civil debt recoverable under paragraph (2) may be recovered summarily—\n(a) in England and Wales, by way of a complaint pursuant to section 58 of the Magistrates' Courts Act 1980;\n(b) in Northern Ireland, in proceedings under Article 62 of the Magistrates' Court (Northern Ireland) Order 1981.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2018/390/regulation/17",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:59:52.654684+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."
}