Cardiff Bay Barrage Act 1993

Survey costs U.K.

8 (1) A survey under paragraph 4 above and, subject to the following provisions of this paragraph, a survey under paragraph 5 or 6 above shall be carried out at the expense of the Development Corporation. U.K.

(2) A notice requiring a survey under paragraph 5 or 6 above shall be accompanied by a payment of £40 in respect of the survey.

(3) If a survey of a building under paragraph 5 or 6 above shows that the building has suffered, or is likely to suffer, groundwater damage the Development Corporation shall immediately return to the person requiring the survey—

(a) the payment made by him under sub-paragraph (2) above in respect of it, and

(b) (in the case of a survey under paragraph 5(3) or (4)) any payment made by him under that sub-paragraph in respect of any earlier survey of that building under paragraph 5(1), (3) or (4)(a) above (and not previously returned).

(4) If a survey of a building under paragraph 6 above does not show that the building has suffered or is likely to suffer groundwater damage the Development Corporation may order the person requiring the survey to pay the full cost of the survey less the payment made by him under sub-paragraph (2) above in respect of it.

(5) The power of the Development Corporation to require payment of the cost of a survey of a building under sub-paragraph (4) above shall not apply where—

(a) the whole, or substantially the whole, of it is occupied as one or more private dwellings, or

(b) it is unoccupied but either—

(i) when it was last occupied the whole, or substantially the whole, of it was so occupied, or

(ii) it is intended that the whole, or substantially the whole, of it should be so occupied.