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(1)Where this section applies, the enforcing authority shall itself have power, in a case falling within paragraph (a) or (b) of section 78E(1) above, to do what is appropriate by way of remediation to the relevant land or waters.
(2)Subsection (1) above shall not confer power on the enforcing authority to do anything by way of remediation if the authority would, in the particular case, be precluded by section 78YB below from serving a remediation notice requiring that thing to be done.
(3)This section applies in each of the following cases, that is to say—
(a)where the enforcing authority considers it necessary to do anything itself by way of remediation for the purpose of preventing the occurrence of any serious harm, or serious pollution of controlled waters, of which there is imminent danger;
(b)where an appropriate person has entered into a written agreement with the enforcing authority for that authority to do, at the cost of that person, that which he would otherwise be required to do under this Part by way of remediation;
(c)where a person on whom the enforcing authority serves a remediation notice fails to comply with any of the requirements of the notice;
(d)where the enforcing authority is precluded by section 78J or 78K above from including something by way of remediation in a remediation notice;
(e)where the enforcing authority considers that, were it to do some particular thing by way of remediation, it would decide, by virtue of subsection (2) of section 78P below or any guidance issued under that subsection,—
(i)not to seek to recover under subsection (1) of that section any of the reasonable cost incurred by it in doing that thing; or
(ii)to seek so to recover only a portion of that cost;
(f)where no person has, after reasonable inquiry, been found who is an appropriate person in relation to any particular thing.
(4)Subject to section 78E(4) and (5) above, for the purposes of this section, the things which it is appropriate for the enforcing authority to do by way of remediation are—
(a)in a case falling within paragraph (a) of subsection (3) above, anything by way of remediation which the enforcing authority considers necessary for the purpose mentioned in that paragraph;
(b)in a case falling within paragraph (b) of that subsection, anything specified in, or determined under, the agreement mentioned in that paragraph;
(c)in a case falling within paragraph (c) of that subsection, anything which the person mentioned in that paragraph was required to do by virtue of the remediation notice;
(d)in a case falling within paragraph (d) of that subsection, anything by way of remediation which the enforcing authority is precluded by section 78J or 78K above from including in a remediation notice;
(e)in a case falling within paragraph (e) or (f) of that subsection, the particular thing mentioned in the paragraph in question.
(5)In this section “the relevant land or waters” means—
(a)the contaminated land in question;
(b)any controlled waters affected by that land; or
(c)any land adjoining or adjacent to that land or those waters.
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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