{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/waste-england-and-wales-regulations-2011/regulation-39",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/waste-england-and-wales-regulations-2011/regulation-39.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2011/988",
  "legislation_title": "The Waste (England and Wales) Regulations 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/waste-england-and-wales-regulations-2011",
  "path": "regulation/39",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "39",
  "heading": "Stop notices",
  "text": "(1) A “stop notice” is a notice prohibiting a person from carrying on an activity specified in the notice until the person has taken the steps specified in the notice.\n(2) If theappropriate body considers that a person is carrying on an activity in contravention of regulation 12(1), 13(2), 14(1) or 25 it may serve a stop notice on that person.\n(3) If a regulation authority considers that a person is carrying on an activity in contravention of section 1 of the 1989 Act it may serve a stop notice on that person.\n(4) A stop notice must—\n(a) state the authority's reason for serving it;\n(b) specify the matters constituting the contravention;\n(c) specify the steps which must be taken to remedy the contravention;\n(d) give information as to the rights of appeal (including the period within which an appeal must be brought).",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in regs. 37-40 substituted (1.4.2013) by The Natural Resources Body for Wales (Functions) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/755), art. 1(2), Sch. 4 para. 409 (with Sch. 7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in reg. 39(2) substituted (1.10.2012) by The Waste (England and Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/1889), regs. 1(2), 2(4)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2011/988/regulation/39",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:10:22.497788+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."
}