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Application of provisions of the OrderN.I.

6.—(1) Articles 9(1) and (2) of the Order (improvement notices) apply, with the modification (in the case of Article 9(1)) specified in Part 1 of the Schedule for the purposes of—

(a)enabling an improvement notice to be served on a person requiring the person to comply with—

(i)any of Articles 3 to 6 and 8 of the Commission Regulation; or

(ii)regulation 5; and

(b)making the failure to comply with a notice referred to in subparagraph (a) an offence.

(2) Article 33 of the Order (powers of entry) applies, with the modifications specified in Part 2 of the Schedule, for the purposes of enabling an authorised officer—

(a)to exercise a power of entry to ascertain whether there is, or has been, any contravention of any of Articles 3 to 6 and 8 of the Commission Regulation;

(b)to exercise a power of entry to ascertain whether there is any evidence of any contravention of such a provision; and

(c)when exercising a power of entry under the provisions of Article 33 as applied by this paragraph, to exercise the powers in paragraphs (6) and (7) relating to records.

(3) Article 37 (appeals) and Article 38 (appeals against improvement notices) of the Order apply, with the modifications specified in Part 3 of the Schedule for the purpose of enabling a decision to serve a notice referred to in paragraph (1)(a) to be appealed.

(4) The provisions of the Order specified in the first column of the table in Part 4 of the Schedule apply with the modifications specified in the second column of that table for the purposes of these Regulations.