Regulation 13 Improvement noticesE1

England, Wales and Scotland

(1)

If an authorised officer (“O”) has reasonable grounds for believing that any person (“P”) is failing to comply with these Regulations O may give P a notice (“an improvement notice”) that—

(a)

states O’s grounds for believing this;

(b)

specifies the matter that constitutes the failure to comply with these Regulations;

(c)

specifies what P must stop doing, or the measures that, in O’s opinion, P must take in order to comply with these Regulations;

(d)

require P to stop doing the action specified in the notice, or take the measures specified in the notice, or measures at least equivalent to them, within the period (being not less than 14 days) specified in the notice;

(e)

informs P of the right of appeal to a relevant court conferred by regulation 14; and

(f)

informs P of the period within which such an appeal may be brought.

(2)

A person is guilty of an offence if they contravene or fail to comply with an improvement notice.

Annotations

Extent

E1: This version of this provision extends to England and Wales and Scotland only; a separate version has been created for Northern Ireland only