UK Withdrawal from the European Union (Continuity) (Scotland) Act 2021 Explanatory Notes

Overview and Background

Part 2 – Environment

Chapter 2 – Environmental governance
Compliance notices
Section 34 - Variation of a compliance notice

142.Section 34 makes provision for Environmental Standards Scotland to vary a compliance notice by extending the compliance period referred to in section 33(1)(d). A compliance notice may be varied by Environmental Standards Scotland at any time before expiry of the compliance period by writing to the public authority to whom the compliance notice was issued. The variation of the compliance notice does not affect the date of its issue for the purpose of section 36(2)(a) (which imposes a 21-day time limit on appealing against a compliance notice).

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