Compliance notices
38.—(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).