F1SCHEDULE A1CIVIL SANCTIONS

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Stop notices: enforcement

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1

Provision under paragraph 7 conferring power on an enforcement authority to serve a stop notice must provide that, where a person on whom a notice is served does not comply with it, the person is guilty of an offence and liable—

a

on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale, or imprisonment for a term not exceeding twelve months, or both, or

b

on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years, or a fine, or both.

2

In the application of this section in relation to an offence committed before the commencement of F2 paragraph 24(2) of Schedule 22 to the Sentencing Act 2020, the reference in sub-paragraph (1)(a) to twelve months is to be read as a reference to six months.