20.—(1) A person may appeal to a magistrates’ court against an enforcement notice if that person has reason to believe that the notice should not have been given.
(2) A person may appeal within the period of one month beginning with the date on which the notice was given.
(3) The procedure is by way of complaint for an order, and the Magistrates’ Court Act 1980(1) applies to the proceedings.
(4) On an appeal the court may either cancel or affirm the notice and, if the court affirms the notice, it may do so either in its original form or with such modifications as the court thinks fit.
1980 c. 43; sections 51 and 52 have been substituted by the Courts Act 2003 (c. 39), section 47.