227 Notices: enforcementF1U.K.
(1)If a person fails to comply with a notice given under section 224 or 225 the enforcer who gave the notice may make an application under this section.
(2)If it appears to the court that the person to whom the notice was given has failed to comply with the notice the court may make an order under this section.
(3)An order under this section may require the person to whom the notice was given to do anything the court thinks it is reasonable for him to do for any of the purposes mentioned in section 224 or 225 (as the case may be) to ensure that the notice is complied with.
(4)An order under this section may require the person to meet all the costs or expenses of the application.
(5)If the person is a company or association the court in proceeding under subsection (4) may require any officer of the company or association who is responsible for the failure to meet the costs or expenses.
(6)The court is a court which may make an enforcement order.
(7)In subsection (5) an officer of a company is a person who is a director, manager, secretary or other similar officer of the company.
Textual Amendments applied to the whole legislation
F1Act: for the words "solicitor of the Supreme Court of Northern Ireland" wherever they occur there is substituted (prosp.) the words "solicitor of the Court of Judicature of Northern Ireland" by virtue of Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4), ss. 59, 148(1), Sch. 11 para. 5 [Editorial Note: this amendment will be carried through into the text of the Act at the same time as any other effects on the Act for the year in which the relevant commencement order (or first such order) is made]