The appropriate person may issue guidance to litter authorities on the exercise of littering enforcement functions by those authorities and authorised officers of those authorities.
A litter authority must have regard to that guidance when exercising any of its littering enforcement functions.
The appropriate person may revise any guidance issued under this section at any time.
Before issuing guidance, or revised guidance, under this section the appropriate person must consult such persons as the appropriate person thinks appropriate.
The Secretary of State must lay before Parliament and publish guidance, and any revised guidance, issued by the Secretary of State under this section.
The Welsh Ministers must lay before Senedd Cymru and publish guidance, and any revised guidance, issued by the Welsh Ministers under this section.
In this section—
"authorised officer", in relation to a litter authority, means a person who is an authorised officer in relation to that authority for the purposes of—section 88 (fixed penalty notices for littering, see subsection (10) of that section),section 88A (fixed penalty notices for littering from vehicles in England, see subsection (4) of that section), orSchedule 3A (distribution of free printed matter, see paragraph 8 of that Schedule);
"littering enforcement function" means—any function of a litter authority, or of an authorised officer of that authority, conferred by or under sections 87 to 88A or Schedule 3A, orany function exercised for purposes connected with any of those sections or that Schedule.