Part II Prevention of Public Danger from Disused Tips

11 Local authorities having functions under Part II.

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For the purpose of ensuring that disused tips do not, by reason of instability, constitute a danger to members of the public, local authorities shall have the functions conferred on them by this Part of this Act.

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For the purposes of this Part of this Act a disused tip is a tip other than one to which the Quarries Regulations 1999 or the Mines Regulations 2014 apply.

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In this Part of this Act “local authority”, . . . F1 means—

a

in England F2. . ., the council of a county, . . . F1F3metropolitan districtor London borough, the Common Council of the City of London or the Council of the Isles of Scilly,

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in Wales, the council of a county or county borough, and

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in Scotland, F5a council constituted under section 2 of the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994.

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In this Part of this Act, “tip” means an accumulation or deposit of refuse from a mine or quarry (whether in a solid state or in solution or suspension) other than an accumulation or deposit situated underground, and where any wall or other structure retains or confines a tip then, whether or not that wall or structure is itself composed of refuse, it is deemed to form part of the tip for the purposes of this Part.

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