Enforcement: notices
17.—(1) Where it appears to the Secretary of State that a transferor authority have carried out work which falls within a defined activity in circumstances where any of paragraphs (a) to (e) of section 13(1) of the Act applies, he may serve on such successor authority or authorities as he sees fit a written notice falling within paragraph (2) below.
(2) The notice is one which—
(a)informs the successor authority that it appears to him that the transferor authority have acted as mentioned in one of the paragraphs (identified in the notice) of section 13(1),
(b)identifies the work and states why it so appears, and
(c)contains the requirement mentioned in paragraph (3) below.
(3) The requirement is that the authority submit to him within such time as is specified in the notice a written response which—
(a)states that the transferor authority have not acted as mentioned in the paragraph concerned of section 13(1) and justifies the statement, or
(b)states that the transferor authority have so acted and gives reasons why he should not give a direction under section 14 of the Act;
and section 13(4) and (5) of the Act shall apply in relation to notices under this regulation and to work specified in such notices as they apply in relation to notices under that section and to work therein specified.