PART 4Felling

CHAPTER 8Compliance

Powers of entry

53Power of entry: failure to comply

(1)

Subsection (2) applies if the Scottish Ministers have reason to believe that a person has failed or is failing to comply with—

(a)

a condition on felling permission,

(b)

a felling direction (including any condition imposed on it),

(c)

a restocking direction (including any condition imposed on it),

(d)

a registered notice to comply,

(e)

a remedial notice (including any condition imposed on it), or

(f)

a registered remedial notice.

(2)

The Scottish Ministers may enter land mentioned in subsection (3) for the purpose of determining whether a person has failed or is failing to comply with the condition, the direction or (as the case may be) the notice.

(3)

The land is—

(a)

in the case of a condition on felling permission—

(i)

the land on which the tree to which the condition relates is located,

(ii)

where it is a continuing condition, the land to which the continuing condition relates,

(b)

in the case of a felling direction or a restocking direction, the land to which the direction relates,

(c)

in the case of a registered notice to comply, a remedial notice or a registered remedial notice, the land to which the notice relates.