Chapter 3: Enforcement Section 28: Compliance notices
This Section provides that the Secretary of State may give a compliance notice where they have reasonable grounds to believe a person has failed to comply with a relevant duty.
	Subsection (2) describes a compliance notice as a notice requiring the recipient to comply with a relevant duty within a specified time frame. Subsection (3) provides that a compliance notice must (a) set out the reasons for giving the compliance notice, (b) explain what may happen if the person does not comply with it, and (c) explain how the person may appeal against it.
	Subsection (4) provides that a compliance notice may require the recipient to take specified steps to comply with a relevant duty and/or to provide evidence to satisfy the Secretary of State within a specified period that the person has complied or is complying with the relevant duty.
	Subsection (5) requires that, before issuing a compliance notice, the Secretary of State must notify the recipient that they intend to give a compliance notice and provide an opportunity for the recipient to make representations about the giving of the notice.
	Subsection (6) sets out that the Secretary of State must not impose the compliance notice until 10 days after they have notified the recipient that they intend to issue a compliance notice.
	Subsection (7) provides that only one compliance notice can be given for the same act or omission. A person may receive multiple notices where there are repeated and different breaches.