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Regulatory Enforcement and Sanctions Act 2008

Regulatory Enforcement and Sanctions Act 2008

2008 CHAPTER 13

Commentary on Sections

Part Three: Civil Sanctions

Section 46: Stop notices

130.This section enables a Minister, by order, to confer on a regulator the power to serve on a person a notice prohibiting that person from carrying on an activity specified in the notice (a “stop notice”). For example, that activity might include a manufacturing process, use of a particular piece of equipment or sale of a particular product. The stop notice will remain in place until the person has taken steps specified in the notice.

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