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Enforced by: Local Authority
Status: In Force
Penalty ceiling: Prosecution 3 of 20 obligations carry a criminal penalty. 10 carry different penalties and 7 have no criminal penalty — flagged in the list below.

Does it bind you?

Business-side roles with duties under this instrument.

Any Person7 Occupier4 Director or Officer2 Licence Holder1

Plus 6 duties on the regulator, Crown ministers and public bodies — folded into the section list below.

Other Acts binding the same actors

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Any Person — also bound by 2340 other Acts

Human Medicines Regulations 2012 184 duties

Merchant Shipping Act 1995 144 duties

Insolvency (England and Wales) Rules 2016 104 duties

Communications Act 2003 92 duties

Road Traffic Act 1988 92 duties

Occupier — also bound by 235 other Acts

The Water Resources (Control of Agricultural Pollution) (Wales) Regulations 2021 47 duties

Avian Influenza and Influenza of Avian Origin in Mammals (England) (No. 2) Order 2006 46 duties

The Welfare of Animals (Slaughter or Killing) Regulations 1995 34 duties

Highways Act 1980 23 duties

Nitrate Pollution Prevention Regulations 2015 19 duties

Director or Officer — also bound by 429 other Acts

Insolvency (England and Wales) Rules 2016 162 duties

Companies Act 2006 126 duties

Insolvency Act 1986 77 duties

The Large and Medium-sized Companies and Groups (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 68 duties

Building Societies Act 1986 32 duties

Licence Holder — also bound by 225 other Acts

Petroleum (Current Model Clauses) Order 1999 318 duties

The Petroleum Licensing (Exploration and Production) (Seaward and Landward Areas) Regulations 2004 123 duties

Human Medicines Regulations 2012 83 duties

Space Industry Regulations 2021 68 duties

The Petroleum (Production) (Landward Areas) Regulations 1991 65 duties

What it requires

Sections creating concrete business duties or carrying penalties, grouped as the instrument is structured. Titles link to the source text — blue means you’re leaving for legislation.gov.uk.

Part 1

Licensing of relevant permanent sites in Scotland

8 of 33 sections shown

s.032 Issue and renewal of a Part 1A site licence Regulated

Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator

Local authority must issue/renew Part 1A licences to fit and proper persons and give notice before refusingLocal authority

s.032 Local authority power to transfer licence where no application Regulated

Any Person

s.032 Duty to inform local authority where change Regulated

Notify local authority of new site manager or changed informationLicence Holder

s.032 Offences in connection with information requirements Prosecution

Give false info or fail to meet caravan site information requirementsAny Person

Fine up to £1,000

s.032 Relevant permanent sites: use without a licence Prosecution

Use caravan site without a Part 1A licenceOccupier

Fine up to £50,000

s.032 Relevant permanent sites: breach of licence conditions Prosecution

Fail to comply with a Part 1A site licence conditionAny Person

Fine up to £10,000

s.032 Improvement notice: offence Prosecution

Fail to comply with improvement noticeAny Person

Fine up to £10,000

s.032 Offences by bodies corporate Regulated

Consent or neglect leading to company caravan site offenceDirector or Officer

25 other sections in this Part — procedural and definitional

s.032 Licences under Part 1A

s.032 Relevant permanent site application

s.032 Fee for relevant permanent site application

s.032 Application to transfer a Part 1 A site licence

s.032 Time limit for determining application

s.032 Transfer of Part 1A site licences on death: relevant permanent sites

s.032 Notification of decision on Part 1A site licence

s.032 Duration of a Part 1A site licence

s.032 Revocation of a Part 1A site licence: fit and proper person

s.032 Appeals relating to a Part 1A site licence

s.032 Power to make provision in relation to procedure and appeals

s.032 Fit and proper person considerations

s.032 Fit and proper person: Level 1 disclosure

s.032 Fit and proper person: information sharing

s.032 Breach of licence condition: improvement notice

s.032 Local authority power to carry out steps in an improvement notice

s.032 Penalty notice where no licence or breach of licence

s.032 Power to appoint interim manager

s.032 Power to take emergency action

s.032 Powers of entry in relation to relevant permanent site

s.032 Expenses of issuing notices

s.032 Expenses of taking action under improvement notice or emergency action notice

s.032 Expenses of local authority in relation to Part 1A licences

s.032 Interpretation of Part 1A

s.032 Guidance

Part 1

Caravan Sites

12 of 48 sections shown

s.001 Prohibition of use of land as caravan site without site licence. Prosecution

Use land as a caravan site without a site licenceOccupier

Unlimited fine

s.004 Duration of site licences. Regulated

Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator

Local authorities must issue caravan site licences with correct durationLocal authority

s.009 Breach of condition: land other than relevant protected sites in England Prosecution

Fail to comply with site licence conditionsOccupier

Fine up to £2,500

s.009 Breach of condition: relevant protected sites in England Regulated

Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator

Council must issue proper compliance notices for breachesLocal authority

s.009 Compliance notice under section 9A: offence and multiple convictions Prosecution

Fail to comply with caravan site compliance noticeOccupier

Unlimited fine

s.010 Powers to charge fees: supplementary Regulated

Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator

Local authorities must prepare and publish a fees policy before charging caravan site feesLocal authority

s.011 Duty of licence holder to surrender licence for alteration. Prosecution

Fail to surrender site licence for alterationAny Person

Fine up to £200

s.023 Power of rural district councils to prohibit caravans on commons. Prosecution

Station caravan on common land in breach of council orderAny Person

Fine up to £200

s.024 Power of local authorities to provide sites for caravans. Regulated

Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator

Local authorities must consult fire authority before providing caravan sitesLocal authority

s.025 Registers of site licences. Regulated

Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator

Local authorities must keep a public register of site licencesLocal authority

s.026 Power of entry of officers of local authorities. Prosecution

Wilfully obstruct an authorised officer carrying out entryAny Person

Fine up to £2,500

s.026 Liability of officers of bodies corporate Regulated

Consent, connive or neglect leading to company caravan site offenceDirector or Officer

36 other sections in this Part — procedural and definitional

s.002 Exemptions from licensing requirements.

s.003 Issue of site licences by local authorities.

s.005 Power of local authority to attach conditions to site licences.

s.005 Relevant protected sites: annual fee

s.006 Failure by local authority to issue site licence.

s.007 Appeal against conditions attached to site licence

s.008 Power of local authority to alter conditions attached to site licences.

s.009 Compliance notice under section 9A: power to demand expenses

s.009 Power to take action following conviction of occupier

s.009 Power to take emergency action

s.009 Action under section 9D or 9E: power to demand expenses

s.009 Appeals under section 9A, 9E or 9F

s.009 When compliance notice or expenses demand becomes operative

s.009 Recovery of expenses demanded under section 9C or 9F

s.010 Transfer of site licences, and transmission on death, etc.

s.012 Responsibility of occupier of land subject to a licence or special tenancy.

s.012 Requirement for fit and proper person

s.012 Register of fit and proper persons

s.012 Application for inclusion in register

s.012 Removal from register, variation of conditions etc.

s.012 Regulations under sections 12A to 12D: supplementary provision

s.013 Caravan Sites

s.014 Caravan Sites

s.015 Caravan Sites

s.016 Caravan Sites

s.017 Caravan Sites

s.018 Caravan Sites

s.019 Caravan Sites

s.020 Caravan Sites

s.021 Caravan Sites

s.027 Caravan Sites

s.028 Crown land.

s.029 Interpretation of Part I.

s.030 Part repeal of s. 269, Public Health Act, 1936.

s.031 Caravan Sites

s.032 Application of Part I to Scotland.

Part 2

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1 other section in this Part — procedural and definitional

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Part 3

General

0 of 3 sections shown

3 other sections in this Part — procedural and definitional

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s.049 Financial provisions.

s.050 Short title, interpretation, extent and commencement.

Schedules

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20 other schedules

s.schedule first para.1 A site licence shall not be required for the use...

s.schedule first para.10 (1) Subject to the provisions of paragraph 13 of this...

s.schedule first para.11 A site licence shall not be required for the use...

s.schedule first para.11a A site licence shall not be required for the use...

s.schedule first para.12 (1) For the purposes of paragraphs 4, 5 and 6...

s.schedule first para.13 (1) The Minister may on the application of a local...

s.schedule first para.2 Subject to the provisions of paragraph 13 of this Schedule,...

s.schedule first para.3 (1) Subject to the provisions of paragraph 13 of this...

s.schedule first para.4 Subject to the provisions of paragraph 13 of this Schedule,...

s.schedule first para.5 (1) Subject to the provisions of paragraph 13 of this...

s.schedule first para.6 Subject to the provisions of paragraph 13 of this Schedule,...

s.schedule first para.7 Subject to the provisions of paragraph 13 of this Schedule,...

s.schedule first para.8 Subject to the provisions of paragraph 13 of this Schedule,...

s.schedule first para.9 Subject to the provisions of paragraph 13 of this Schedule,...

s.schedule second para.1 Before making an order under section twenty-three of this Act...

s.schedule second para.2 Before making any order under the said section twenty-three, other...

s.schedule second para.3 (1) Not later than the date on which the said...

s.schedule second para.4 (1) If before the expiration of a period of twenty-eight...

s.schedule second para.5 Where the sole effect of an order under section twenty-three...

s.schedule second para.6 (1) Where it is proposed to make an order of...

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Caravan Sites and Control of Development Act 1960

Does it bind you?

Other Acts binding the same actors

What it requires

Licensing of relevant permanent sites in Scotland

Caravan Sites

General

Schedules

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