Housing and Planning Act 1986

6 In section 280 of that Act (rights of entry)—

(a) the following subsection shall be inserted after subsection (1) —

“(1A) Any person duly authorised in writing by the Secretary of State or by a hazardous substances authority may at any reasonable time enter any land for the purpose of surveying it in connection with—

(a) any application for hazardous substances consent ;

(b) any proposal to issue a hazardous substances contravention notice.”;

(b) at the end of subsection (4) there shall be added the words " and any person duly authorised in writing by the Secretary of State or by a hazardous substances authority may at any reasonable time enter any land for the purpose of ascertaining whether an offence appears to have been committed under section 58K of this Act. " ;

(c) the following subsection shall be inserted after subsection (6) —

“(6A) Subsection (6) above shall have effect for the purposes of a claim for compensation made by virtue of section 58H(8) or 58J(12) of this Act as if a reference to a local planning authority were a reference to a hazardous substances authority.”; and

(d) in subsection (8), after the word " section " there shall be inserted the words " or a hazardous substances contravention notice has been issued ".