64 Warning notices

64  Warning notices

(1)     Before a Welsh public authority which has been designated under section 62 can be required to make any payment under this Part in respect of an EU financial sanction to which the designation applies—

(a)     the Welsh Ministers must give a warning notice under this section to the authority;

(b)     the procedures set out in the warning notice (with any changes made under subsection (9)) must be followed; and

(c)     the Welsh Ministers must determine the matters mentioned in section 65(4).

(2)     A warning notice is a notice stating that the Welsh Ministers, having regard to the judgment of the Court of Justice imposing the EU financial sanction, believe—

(a)     that acts of the authority may have caused or contributed to the infraction of EU law for which the EU financial sanction was imposed; and

(b)     that, if acts of the authority did cause or contribute to that infraction of EU law, it would be appropriate to consider requiring the authority to make payments under this Part (which may be or include ongoing payments) in respect of the EU financial sanction.

(3)     The warning notice must also—

(a)     identify the EU financial sanction to which

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