s 45AZF Sections 45AZA and 45AZB: compliance notices
(1) This section applies where the Environment Agency considers that a person other than an English waste collection authority— (a) is a party to arrangements for the collection of household waste which fail to comply with section 45AZA, (b) is a party to arrangements for the collection of relevant waste which fail to comply with section 45AZB, or (c) is failing to comply with section 45AZA(8) or 45AZB(8). (2) It may give that person a notice (a “ compliance notice ”) requiring them to take specified steps within a specified period to secure that the failure does not continue or recur. (3) A compliance notice must— (a) specify the failures to comply with section 45AZA or 45AZB, (b) specify the steps which must be taken for the purpose of preventing the failure continuing or recurring, (c) specify the period within which those steps must be taken, and (d) give information as to the rights of appeal (including the period within which an appeal must be brought). (4) A person who fails to comply with a compliance notice commits an offence. (5) A person who commits an offence under subsection (4) is liable on summary conviction or conviction on indictment to a fine.