12C—(1) This Article applies where the person on whom a litter clearing notice is served under Article 12A fails without reasonable excuse to comply with any requirement imposed by the notice.
(2) The person is guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 4 on the standard scale.
(3) The district council which served the notice or any person authorised by it may enter the land to which the notice relates and clear it of litter.
(4) Where a district council exercises the power in paragraph (3), it may require the person on whom the notice was served to pay a reasonable charge in respect of the exercise of the power.
(5) A district council may for the purposes of paragraph (4) impose charges by reference to land of particular descriptions or categories (including categories determined by reference to surface area).]
F1Arts. 12A-12C inserted (1.4.2012) by Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Act (Northern Ireland) 2011 (c. 23), ss. 17(2), 78; S.R. 2012/13, Sch. 2