Part III Protection of Ships and Harbour Areas against Acts of Violence

Supplemental provisions with respect to directions

33 Enforcement notices: supplementary.

(1)

An enforcement notice served on any person—

(a)

may be revoked by a notice served on him by an authorised person, and

(b)

may be varied by a further enforcement notice.

(2)

Sections 25 and 26 of this Act apply to an enforcement notice as they apply to the direction to which the notice relates.

(3)

The ownership of any property shall not be affected by reason only that it is placed on or under or affixed to, any land in compliance with an enforcement notice.

(4)

Where an authorised person has served an enforcement notice specifying the general requirements of a direction with which the person on whom it is served has, in the opinion of the authorised person, failed to comply, the person on whom the notice is served shall not be taken, for the purposes of section 21(8), 22(7), 23(3) or 24(7) of this Act, to have failed to comply with the direction by reason of the matters specified in the notice.

(5)

Subsection (4) above does not apply in relation to any proceedings commenced before the service of the enforcement notice.

(6)

Where an enforcement notice has been served in relation to a direction, the fact that the notice specifies certain general requirements of the direction as those with which the person on whom the notice is served has, in the opinion of the authorised person, failed to comply shall not in any proceedings be evidence that any other requirement of the direction has been complied with.

(7)

In this section direction means a direction under section 21, 22, 23 or 24 of this Act.