The Environmental Authorisations (Scotland) Regulations 2018

SEPA: regulatory notices requiring cessation

47.—(1) Where SEPA serves a regulatory notice requiring the cessation of an activity authorised by a permit, registration or notification—

(a) the permit, registration or notification ceases to have effect to authorise the activity on the date and to the extent specified in the notice; and

(b) the notice must specify—

(i) the extent to which the permit, registration or notification ceases to have effect;

(ii) that the permit, registration or notification shall, until the regulatory notice is withdrawn, cease to have effect to authorise the activity to the extent specified;

(iii) the limitations or conditions to which any permit or registration that is not wholly suspended is to be subject until the regulatory notice is withdrawn; and

(iv) the date on which the notice takes effect (which must not be earlier than the date on which the notice is served).

(2) Where SEPA serves a regulatory notice on a person requiring the cessation of an activity to which general binding rules apply—

(a) regulation 10(1) has no effect to authorise the carrying on of the activity by the person from the date specified in the notice; and

(b) the notice must specify—

(i) that the activity ceases to be authorised until the regulatory notice is withdrawn;

(ii) the date on which the notice takes effect (which must not be earlier than the date on which the notice is served).