5. The Water Resources (Environmental Impact Assessment) (England and Wales) Regulations 2003(1) are amended by inserting the following after regulation 9—
9A.—(1) The Environment Agency may impose a variable monetary penalty, restoration notice, compliance notice or stop notice, or accept an enforcement undertaking, in relation to an offence under regulation 9(4) as if it were an offence under a provision specified in relation to that sanction in Schedule 5 to the Environmental Civil Sanctions (England) Order 2010.
(2) The terms used in this regulation have the same meaning as in that Order.
(3) The provisions of that Order in relation to those sanctions apply as if they were provisions of these Regulations.
(4) This regulation applies only in England.”.
S. I. 2003/164 to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations..