A local authority may recover from the person on whom a defacement removal notice was served expenditure reasonably incurred in exercise of the power under section 48(4).
A local authority may not recover expenditure from a person under subsection (1) unless it has served on that person a notice which sets out the amount of, and details of, the expenditure which it proposes to recover.
Section 160 of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 has effect in relation to notices under subsection (2) as if they were notices within subsection (2) of that section.