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PART 4Enforcement

Remediation notices

26.—(1) If a person has carried out a project on semi-natural and/or uncultivated land or a restructuring project, in breach of regulation 4 or 8, the Welsh Ministers may serve a notice on the person who appears to them to be responsible (“a remediation notice”).

(2) A remediation notice may require the person—

(a)to reinstate, to the Welsh Ministers’ satisfaction, the relevant land to the condition it was in before the project was commenced; or

(b)to take such other steps that the Welsh Ministers consider appropriate to return the land to good environmental condition or to a standard the Welsh Ministers consider reasonable in the circumstances.

(3) A remediation notice must state the period within which the requirements of the notice are to be completed.

(4) The Welsh Ministers may, at any time after issuing a remediation notice—

(a)amend its terms;

(b)extend the period under paragraph (3); or

(c)terminate it.