Article 13 Action in default

If any person fails to take any action required to be taken by him under this order or any notice or licence served or issued under it, an officer of the appropriate Minister or an inspector of the local authority may, without prejudice to any proceedings for an offence arising out of such failure, take, or cause to be taken, such action and the amount of any expenses reasonably incurred by him in doing so shall be recoverable as a civil debt by the appropriate Minister or, as the case may be, by the local authority from the person in default.