8.—(1) Section 10(1) and (2) of the Act (improvement notices) applies for the purposes of these Regulations with the modification (in the case of section 10(1)) set out in Part 1 of Schedule 5 for the purposes of—
(a)enabling an improvement notice to be served on a person requiring that person to comply with any of the provisions of regulations 4, 5 or 6; and
(b)making the failure to comply with a notice referred to in sub-paragraph (a) an offence.
(2) The provisions of the Act specified in column 1 of the table in Part 2 of Schedule 5 apply, with the modifications specified in column 2 of that table, for the purposes of these Regulations.
(3) Paragraphs (1) and (2) are without prejudice to the application of the Act to these Regulations for purposes other than those specified in paragraph (1).