44Failure to comply with a compliance notice
(1)If a person to whom a compliance notice has been issued fails to comply with the notice, the person commits an offence.
(2)Where a person to whom a compliance notice has been issued fails to take any step required by the notice, the person does not, by reason of that failure, commit an offence under subsection (1) if—
(a)the person takes other steps to ensure that the person ceases to commit the relevant offence in respect of which the notice was issued, and
(b)an authorised officer of the appropriate enforcement authority notifies the person in writing that those steps are acceptable for the purposes of complying with the notice.
(3)A person who commits an offence under subsection (1) is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale.