PART 10 Enforcement

38 Compliance notices
1 A “compliance notice” is a notice requiring a person to take specified steps within a specified period to secure that a contravention does not continue or recur.
2 If the Environment Agency considers that a person has contravened or is contravening regulation 12(1), 13(1), 14(1) or 25 it may serve a compliance notice on that person.
3 If a regulation authority considers that a person has contravened or is contravening section 1 of the 1989 Act it may serve a compliance notice on that person.
4 A compliance notice must—
(a) state the authority’s reason for serving it;
(b) specify the matters constituting the contravention;
(c) specify the steps which must be taken to secure that the contravention does not continue or recur;
(d) specify the period within which those steps must be taken;
(e) give information as to the rights of appeal (including the period within which an appeal must be brought).