The Control of Mercury (Enforcement) Regulations 2017

Action by SEPA to ensure compliance with enforcement notices U.K.

27.—(1) This regulation applies where—

(a) SEPA has given an enforcement notice to a person, and

(b) SEPA is of the opinion that the person has not carried out one or more of the actions referred to in the enforcement notice within the compliance period (see regulation 26(6)(c)).

(2) SEPA may take any of the following action (whether the same as or different to any action referred to in the enforcement notice)—

(a) action to ensure compliance with the relevant provision or provisions in question;

(b) action to remediate any environmental damage attributable to the non-compliance in question;

(c) action to remove or mitigate any risk of non-compliance with the relevant provision or provisions in question.

(3) If SEPA proposes that any of the action under paragraph (2) be taken on any premises, sections 108, 108A, 109 and 110 of, and Schedule 18 to, the EA 1995 (as they apply in Scotland) apply but as if—

(a) in section 108 there were a reference to the purpose of taking action to ensure compliance with a relevant provision or provisions referred to in an enforcement notice at the end of the list of purposes in subsection (1);

(b) in section 108 there were a reference to taking action to ensure compliance with a relevant provision or provisions referred to in an enforcement notice at the end of the list of powers in subsection (4);

(c) in paragraph 6(1) of Schedule 18 the reference in the words before paragraph (a) to any power conferred by section 108(4)(a) or (b) or (5) of this Act included a reference to the power conferred by virtue of sub-paragraph (b) above.