Disused Mine and Quarry Tips (Wales) Act 2025 / Deddf Tomenni Mwyngloddiau a Chwareli Nas Defnyddir (Cymru) 2025
Disused Mine and Quarry Tips (Wales) Act 2025 / Deddf Tomenni Mwyngloddiau a Chwareli Nas Defnyddir (Cymru) 2025 (2025 c. 4)
- Disused Mine and Quarry Tips (Wales) Act 2025 / Deddf Tomenni Mwyngloddiau a Chwareli Nas Defnyddir (Cymru) 2025 (2025 c. 4)
- PART 1 THE DISUSED TIPS AUTHORITY FOR WALES
- Establishment and exercise of functions
- 1 The Disused Tips Authority for Wales
- 2 The Authority’s exercise of its functions
- General functions
- 3 Information, advice and assistance
- 4 Financial assistance
- 5 Ancillary powers
- PART 2 ASSESSMENT, REGISTRATION AND MONITORING OF DISUSED TIPS
- CHAPTER 1 REGISTER OF DISUSED TIPS
- The register
- 6 Duty to compile and maintain register
- 7 The criteria for registration
- 8 Content of the register
- 9 Public access to the register
- Monitoring registered tips
- 10 Duty to monitor registered tips
- CHAPTER 2 ASSESSMENT OF DISUSED TIPS
- General
- 11 Overview
- Preliminary assessment
- 12 Meaning of “preliminary assessment”
- 13 Preliminary assessments of all disused tips
- 14 Additional preliminary assessments
- Full assessment
- 15 Meaning of “full assessment”
- 16 Full assessment of unregistered tip
- 17 Full assessment of registered tip
- 18 Notice of intention to carry out full assessment
- 19 Notice of conclusions of full assessment
- CHAPTER 3 REGISTERING AND DEREGISTERING DISUSED TIPS
- 20 Proposal to register tip
- 21 Decision on registration
- 22 Proposal to remove tip from register
- 23 Decision on removal of tip from register
- CHAPTER 4 THE CATEGORIES OF DISUSED TIP ETC.
- 24 Categories of disused tip
- 25 Statement of policy on categorisation
- 26 Initial categorisation of a disused tip
- 27 Reviews of categorisation
- CHAPTER 5 NOTIFIABLE CHANGES TO THE REGISTER
- 28 Meaning of “notifiable change”
- 29 Proposal to make notifiable change
- 30 Decision on notifiable change
- CHAPTER 6 SUPPLEMENTARY PROVISION
- 31 Duty to compile and maintain list of all disused tips
- 32 Duty to publish notices
- 33 Compensation for damage or disturbance
- 34 Penalty for obstructing monitoring activities or assessments
- PART 3 DEALING WITH TIP INSTABILITY AND THREATS TO TIP STABILITY
- CHAPTER 1 REQUIRING AN OWNER OF LAND TO CARRY OUT OPERATIONS
- 35 Notice requiring owner of land to carry out operations
- 36 Owner’s right of entry onto land etc.
- 37 Duty to give interested parties copies of notice
- 38 Right of owner and interested parties to appeal against notice
- 39 Determination of appeals
- 40 Supplementary provision about appeals
- 41 Penalty for failure to comply with notice
- 42 Power to cancel notice
- 43 Reimbursement of owner’s expenses on cancellation of notice
- CHAPTER 2 OPERATIONS CARRIED OUT BY THE AUTHORITY
- 44 Authority’s power to carry out operations
- 45 Authority’s right to remove and dispose of property
- 46 Duty to give notice to owners
- 47 Duty to give interested parties copies of notice
- CHAPTER 3 PAYMENTS IN CONNECTION WITH OPERATIONS
- 48 Contribution orders
- 49 Meaning of “contribution order”, “contributory” and “the specified percentage”
- 50 Compensation for damage, loss or disturbance etc.
- 51 Owner’s right to recover expenses from contributory
- 52 Right of contributory to appeal against owner’s demand
- 53 Authority’s right to recover certain expenses
- 54 Right to appeal against Authority’s demand
- CHAPTER 4 SUPPLEMENTARY PROVISION
- 55 Power to carry out investigations
- 56 Penalty for obstructing operations etc.
- PART 4 SUPPLEMENTARY
- Management plans for registered tips
- 57 Management plans
- Information sharing
- 58 Meaning of “relevant public authority”
- 59 Authority’s power to require relevant public authorities to give information
- 60 Duties of Authority and relevant public authorities to share information
- 61 Information about estates or interests in land
- 62 Information about estates or interests in Crown land
- 63 Information to identify or assess threats to stability of a disused tip etc.
- 64 Penalties in connection with notices requiring information
- Powers of entry
- 65 Power to enter land
- 66 Entry to land without a warrant
- 67 Warrant to enter land
- 68 Entry to land with a warrant
- 69 Penalty for obstructing entry to land
- 70 Entry to Crown land
- Miscellaneous
- 71 Duty to establish and maintain a website or other electronic facility
- 72 Publication
- 73 Provision of administrative, technical or professional services
- 74 Guidance
- 75 Amendments to the Mines and Quarries (Tips) Act 1969
- PART 5 GENERAL
- Offences
- 76 Offences by bodies corporate
- 77 Bringing proceedings
- Regulations
- 78 Power to make consequential, transitional etc. provision
- 79 Regulations under this Act
- Giving notices and other documents
- 80 General provision about giving notices etc.
- 81 Additional provision about giving notices etc. to persons occupying or interested in land
- 82 Giving notices etc. to the Crown
- Special cases
- 83 Raising of money in particular cases to meet expenditure
- 84 Church of England land
- 85 Power to modify application of Act to Authority land
- Interpretation
- 86 Meaning of “tip” and “disused tip”
- 87 Meaning of “threat to human welfare”
- 88 Meaning of “owner”
- 89 Definitions relating to the Crown
- 90 General interpretation
- 91 Index of defined terms
- Miscellaneous
- 92 Coming into force
- 93 Short title
- SCHEDULE 1 THE DISUSED TIPS AUTHORITY FOR WALES
- PART 1 STATUS
- Status
- PART 2 MEMBERS
- Members
- Disqualification from being a non-executive member
- Terms of non-executive membership
- Removal etc. of members
- PART 3 STAFF
- Chief executive
- Other staff
- PART 4 DELEGATION
- Committees and sub-committees
- Delegation
- PART 5 PROCEDURE ETC.
- Procedure
- Validity of proceedings and acts
- Seal
- Evidence
- PART 6 FINANCIAL MATTERS
- Funding
- Accounting officer
- Accounts
- Audit
- Examination into use of resources
- PART 7 REPORTING REQUIREMENTS ETC.
- Corporate plan
- Annual report
- PART 8 MINOR AND CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS
- Coal Industry Act 1994 (c. 21)
- Government of Wales Act 2006 (c. 32)
- Welsh Language (Wales) Measure 2011 (nawm 1)
- Well-being of Future Generations (Wales) Act 2015 (anaw 2)
- SCHEDULE 2 CLAIMS FOR COMPENSATION BY OWNERS AND CONTRIBUTORIES
- SCHEDULE 3 MODIFICATIONS OF SECTIONS 51 AND 52 WHERE A NOTICE UNDER SECTION 35 IS CANCELLED
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