(1) A local authority which has issued a site licence may take action in relation to any of the land comprising the site if it appears to the local authority that—
(a) the owner of the land is failing or has failed to comply with a condition of the site licence, and
(b) as a result of that failure there is an imminent risk of serious harm to the health or safety of any person who is or may be on the land.
(2) The action a local authority may take under this section (referred to in this section as “emergency action”) is such action as appears to the local authority to be necessary to remove the imminent risk of serious harm mentioned in subsection (1)(b).
(3) Where a local authority proposes to take emergency action, the local authority must serve on the owner of the land a notice which—
(a) identifies
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