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Yn ddilys o 21/09/1995
(1)In any case where—
(a)any land has been designated as a special site by virtue of section 78C(7) or 78D(6) above, or
(b)a local authority has identified any contaminated land (other than a special site) in its area,
the enforcing authority shall, in accordance with such procedure as may be prescribed and subject to the following provisions of this Part, serve on each person who is an appropriate person a notice (in this Part referred to as a “remediation notice”) specifying what that person is to do by way of remediation and the periods within which he is required to do each of the things so specified.
(2)Different remediation notices requiring the doing of different things by way of remediation may be served on different persons in consequence of the presence of different substances in, on or under any land or waters.
(3)Where two or more persons are appropriate persons in relation to any particular thing which is to be done by way of remediation, the remediation notice served on each of them shall state the proportion, determined under section 78F(7) below, of the cost of doing that thing which each of them respectively is liable to bear.
(4)The only things by way of remediation which the enforcing authority may do, or require to be done, under or by virtue of this Part are things which it considers reasonable, having regard to—
(a)the cost which is likely to be involved; and
(b)the seriousness of the harm, or pollution of controlled waters, in question.
(5)In determining for any purpose of this Part—
(a)what is to be done (whether by an appropriate person, the enforcing authority or any other person) by way of remediation in any particular case,
(b)the standard to which any land is, or waters are, to be remediated pursuant to the notice, or
(c)what is, or is not, to be regarded as reasonable for the purposes of subsection (4) above,
the enforcing authority shall have regard to any guidance issued for the purpose by the Secretary of State.
(6)Regulations may make provision for or in connection with—
(a)the form or content of remediation notices; or
(b)any steps of a procedural nature which are to be taken in connection with, or in consequence of, the service of a remediation notice.
Textual Amendments
F1Pt. IIA (ss. 78A-78YC) inserted (in force at 21.9.1995 for certain purposes only, at 1.4.2000 for E. in so far as not already in force, at 14.7.2000 for S. for certain purposes and otherwise 14.7.2000) by 1995 c. 25, s. 57 (with ss. 7(6), 115, 117); S.I. 1995/1983, art. 3; S.I. 2000/340, art. 2(a); S.S.I. 2000/180, art. 2(1)(a)(2); S.I. 2000/1986, art. 2
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