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.