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<blockquote data-quote="Goweresque" data-source="post: 6555467" data-attributes="member: 818"><p>You don't get prosecuted, you get issued with compliance orders. I suppose if you refused to comply with one of those you could eventually be prosecuted for something, or Defra could get the work done at your expense maybe, I don't know if they have that power. But the usefulness of the Weeds Act is less its power over private individuals, rather a stick to compel large corporate and public bodies to act - they are unable to not comply with official compliance orders, so the existence of the Weeds Act give the private landowner some way of forcing the like of the Highways Agency, Network Rail, local councils etc to control ragwort particularly. </p><p></p><p>To be fair I doubt that anyone has ever been issued with a compliance order under the WA for docks and thistles - they can be controlled relatively easily with herbicides and while a pain are not poisonous, so the damage and danger to neighbouring land is not massive. Its for forcing people to control ragwort that we need the WA most for.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Goweresque, post: 6555467, member: 818"] You don't get prosecuted, you get issued with compliance orders. I suppose if you refused to comply with one of those you could eventually be prosecuted for something, or Defra could get the work done at your expense maybe, I don't know if they have that power. But the usefulness of the Weeds Act is less its power over private individuals, rather a stick to compel large corporate and public bodies to act - they are unable to not comply with official compliance orders, so the existence of the Weeds Act give the private landowner some way of forcing the like of the Highways Agency, Network Rail, local councils etc to control ragwort particularly. To be fair I doubt that anyone has ever been issued with a compliance order under the WA for docks and thistles - they can be controlled relatively easily with herbicides and while a pain are not poisonous, so the damage and danger to neighbouring land is not massive. Its for forcing people to control ragwort that we need the WA most for. [/QUOTE]
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