The Water Resources (Abstraction and Impounding) Regulations 2006

Content of enforcement notices

25.  An enforcement notice under section 25A(1) (enforcement notices) must—

(a) state the name and address of the person on whom the notice is served;

(b) describe the breach or failure to comply to which the notice relates;

(c) describe the significant damage to the environment which is being, or is likely to be, caused by that breach or failure;

(d) identify the source of supply or inland waters that are subject, or likely to be subject, to that damage;

(e) specify the works or operations (if any) required to be carried out and give the Agency’s reasons for requiring those works or operations to be carried out;

(f) inform the person on whom the notice is served of—

(i) his right to appeal under section 161C(2) (appeals against works notices), as applied by section 25B(3) (rights of entry and appeals), including the time for appealing; and

(ii) the requirements imposed by regulation 3 of the Anti-Pollution Works Regulations 1999(4), as applied by regulation 28, in relation to the exercise of that right; and

(g) set out the provisions of section 25C(5) (consequences of not complying with an enforcement notice).

(1)

Section 25A was inserted by the WA, section 30.

(2)

Section 161C was inserted by the EA, section 120 and Schedule 22, paragraph 162.

(3)

Section 25B was inserted by the WA, section 30.

(4)

S.I. 1999/1006.

(5)

Section 25C was inserted by the WA, section 30.