PART VIN.I.ENFORCEMENT

Enforcement noticesN.I.

Enforcement notice to have effect against subsequent developmentN.I.

76.—(1) Compliance with an enforcement notice whether in respect of—

(a)the completion,[F1 removal] or alteration of any buildings or works, or

(b)the discontinuance of any use of land,

or in respect of any other requirement contained in the enforcement notice, shall not discharge the enforcement notice.

(2) Without prejudice to paragraph (1), any provision of an enforcement notice requiring a use of land to be discontinued shall operate as a requirement that it shall be discontinued permanently, to the extent that it is in contravention of Part IV; and accordingly the resumption of that use at any time after it has been discontinued in compliance with the enforcement notice shall to that extent be in contravention of the enforcement notice.

(3) Without prejudice to paragraph (1), if any development is carried out on land by way of reinstating or restoring buildings or works which have been[F1 removed] or altered in compliance with an enforcement notice, the notice shall, notwithstanding that its terms are not apt for the purpose, be deemed to apply in relation to the buildings or works as reinstated or restored as it applied in relation to the buildings or works before they were[F1 removed] or altered; and, subject to paragraph (4), Article 74 shall apply accordingly.

(4) Where, at any time after an enforcement notice takes effect—

(a)any development is carried out on land by way of reinstating or restoring buildings or works which have been[F1 removed] or altered in compliance with the notice, and

(b)the Department proposes, under Article 74(1), to take any steps required by the enforcement notice for the[F1 removal] or alteration of the buildings or works in consequence of the reinstatement or restoration,

the Department shall, not less than 28 days before taking any such steps, serve on the owner and occupier of the land a notice of its intention to do so.

(5) A person who, without the grant of planning permission in that behalf, carries out any development on land by way of reinstating or restoring buildings or works which have been[F1 removed] or altered in compliance with an enforcement notice shall be guilty of an offence, and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale; and no person shall be liable under[F1 Article 72(2)] for failure to take any steps required to be taken by an enforcement notice by way of[F1 removal] or alteration of what has been so reinstated or restored.