{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/ship-and-port-facility-security-regulations-2004/regulation-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/ship-and-port-facility-security-regulations-2004/regulation-16.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2004/1495",
  "legislation_title": "The Ship and Port Facility (Security) Regulations 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/ship-and-port-facility-security-regulations-2004",
  "path": "regulation/16",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Objections to enforcement notices",
  "text": "(1) A person on whom an enforcement notice is served may serve on the Secretary of State a notice in writing of his objection to the enforcement notice.\n(2) The grounds of objection to an enforcement notice are—\n(a) that the steps required by the notice to be taken for the purposes of regulation 13 have been complied with;\n(b) that the matters stated in the enforcement notice in accordance with regulation 14(1) do not constitute a failure to comply with the requirements specified in regulation 13;\n(c) that any requirement of the notice —\n(i) is unnecessary for complying with the requirements specified in regulation 13 and should be dispensed with or;\n(ii) having regard to the terms of those requirements, is excessively onerous or inconvenient and should be modified in a manner specified in the notice of objection served under paragraph (1).\n(3) An objection to an enforcement notice under this regulation shall be served on the Secretary of State within seven days of the date on which the enforcement notice was served.\n(4) A person making an objection to an enforcement notice under this regulation shall submit to the Secretary of State, either when making the objection or within the seven days referred to in paragraph (3), a statement in writing—\n(a) specifying the grounds on which he is objecting to the enforcement notice, and\n(b) providing such further information as may be appropriate.\n(5) Where the person on whom an enforcement notice is served serves a notice under paragraph (1), the Secretary of State shall consider the grounds of the objection and, if so required by the objector, shall afford to him an opportunity of appearing before and being heard by a person appointed by the Secretary of State for the purpose, and shall then serve on the objector a notice in writing either—\n(a) confirming the enforcement notice as originally served, or\n(b) confirming it subject to one or more modifications specified in the notice, or\n(c) cancelling the enforcement notice.\n(6) An enforcement notice to which an objection has been made under paragraph (1) shall not take effect until it has been confirmed, with or without modification, by a notice under paragraph (5).\n(7) An enforcement notice served on any person —\n(a) may be revoked by a notice served on him by a duly authorised officer, and\n(b) may be varied by a further enforcement notice served on him by a duly authorised officer.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 16(2)(b) substituted (1.7.2005) by The Ship and Port Facility (Security) (Amendment) Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/1434), regs. 1, 2(5)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2004/1495/regulation/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:24:13.490930+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."
}