Cap. 496 Art. 25Enforcement notices.

(1) If the Commissioner is satisfied that a public authority has failed to comply with any of its obligations under this Act, the Commissioner may serve the authority with a notice (in this Act referred to as "an enforcement notice") requiring the authority to take, within such a time as may be specified in the notice, such steps as may be so specified for complying with those obligations.

(2) An enforcement notice shall contain -

(a) a statement of the requirement or requirements of this Act with which the public authority has, in the Commissioner’s satisfied opinion, failed to comply, and his reasons for reaching that conclusion; and

(b) particulars of the right of appeal conferred by article 39.

(3) An enforcement notice shall not require any of the provisions of the notice to be complied with before the end of the period within which an appeal can be brought against the notice and, if such an appeal is brought, the notice need not be complied with pending the determination or withdrawal of the appeal.

(4) The Commissioner may cancel an enforcement notice by written notice to the public authority on which it was served.

(5) This article shall have effect subject to article 26.