Disused Mine and Quarry Tips (Wales) Act 2025

  1. Introduction

  2. Summary and Policy Background

  3. Commentary on Sections

    1. Part 1 – the Disused Tips Authority for Wales.

      1. Overview of Part 1

        1. Section 1 - The Disused Tips Authority for Wales

        2. Schedule 1- The Disused Tips Authority for Wales

        3. Section 2 - The Authority’s exercise of its functions

        4. Section 3 - Information, advice and assistance

        5. Section 4 – Financial assistance

        6. Section 5 - Ancillary powers

    2. Part 2 Assessment, Registrati on and Monitoring of Disused Tips

      1. Chapter 1– Register of Disused Tips

        1. Overview of Chapter 1

          1. Sections 6 and 7 – Duty to compile and maintain register and the criteria for registration

          2. Section 8 - Content of the register

          3. Section 9 - Public access to the register

          4. Section 10 - Duty to monitor registered tips

      2. Chapter 2 – Assessment of Disused Tips

        1. Section 11 - Overview

        2. Sections 12 and 15 - Meaning of “preliminary assessment” and “full assessment”

        3. Section 13 - Preliminary assessments of all disused tips

        4. Section 14 – Additional preliminary assessments

        5. Section 16 – Full assessment of unregistered tip

        6. Section 17 - Full assessment of registered tip

        7. Section 18 – Notice of intention to carry out full assessment

        8. Section 19 – Notice of conclusions of full assessment

      3. Chapter 3 – Registering and Deregistering Disused Tips

        1. Overview of Chapter 3

          1. Section 20 – Proposal to register tip

          2. Section 21 – Decision on registration

          3. Section 22 – Proposal to remove tip from register

          4. Section 23 – Decision on removal of tip from register

      4. Chapter 4 – the Categories of Disused Tip Etc

        1. Overview of Chapter

          1. Section 24 – Categories of disused tip

          2. Section 25 – Statement of policy on categorisation

          3. Section 26 – Initial categorisation of a disused tip

          4. Section 27 – Reviews of categorisation

      5. Chapter 5 – Notifiable Changes to the Register

        1. Overview of Chapter 5

          1. Section 28 – Meaning of “notifiable change”

          2. Section 29 – Proposal to make notifiable change

          3. Section 30 – Decision on notifiable change

      6. Chapter 6 – Supplementary Provision

        1. Overview

          1. Section 31 – Duty to compile and maintain list of all disused tips

          2. Section 32 – Duty to publish notices

          3. Section 33 - Compensation for damage or disturbance

          4. Schedule 2 – Claims for compensation by owners and contributories

          5. Section 34 – Penalty for obstructing monitoring activities or assessments

    3. Part 3 – Dealing With Tip Instability and Threats to Tip Stability

      1. Chapter 1 - Requiring an Owner of Land to Carry Out Operations

        1. Overview of Chapter

          1. Section 35 – Notice requiring owner of land to carry out operations

          2. Section 36 – Owner's right of entry onto land etc

          3. Section 37 – Duty to give interested parties copies of notice

          4. Section 38 – Right of owner and interested parties to appeal against notice

          5. Section 39 – Determination of appeals

          6. Section 40 – Supplementary provision about appeals

          7. Section 41 – Penalty for failure to comply with notice

          8. Section 42 – Power to cancel notice

          9. Section 43 – Reimbursement of owner’s expenses on cancellation of notice

      2. Chapter 2 – Operations Carried Out by the Authority

        1. Overview of Chapter

          1. Section 44 – Authority's power to carry out operations

          2. Section 45 – Authority's right to remove and dispose of property

          3. Section 46 – Duty to give notice to owners

          4. Section 47 – Duty to give interested parties copies of notice

      3. Chapter 3 – Payments in Connection With Operations

        1. Overview of Chapter

          1. Section 48 – Contribution orders

          2. Section 49 – Meaning of “contribution order”, “contributory” and “the specified percentage”

          3. Section 50 – Compensation for damage, loss or disturbance etc

          4. Section 51 – Owner's right to receive expenses from contributory

          5. Schedule 3 – Modifications of sections 51 and 52 where a notice under section 35 is cancelled

          6. Section 52 – Right of contributory to appeal against owner’s demand

          7. Section 53 – Authority's right to recover certain expenses

          8. Section 54 - Right to appeal against Authority’s demand

      4. Chapter 4 – Supplementary Provision

        1. Overview of Chapter 4

          1. Section 55 – Power to carry out investigations

          2. Section 56 – Penalty for obstructing operations etc

    4. Part 4 – Supplementary

      1. Overview of Part 4

        1. Section 57 – Management plans

        2. Section 58 – Meaning of “relevant public authority”

        3. Section 59 – Authority's power to require relevant public authorities to give information

        4. Section 60 – Duties of Authority and relevant public authorities to share information

        5. Section 61 – Information about estates or interests in land

        6. Section 62 – Information about estates or interests in Crown land

        7. Section 63 – Information to identify or assess threats to stability of a disused tip etc

        8. Section 64 - Penalties in connection with notices requiring information

        9. Section 65 – Power to enter land

        10. Section 66 – Entry to land without a warrant

        11. Section 67 – Warrant to enter land

        12. Section 68 - Entry to land with a warrant

        13. Section 69 – Penalty for obstructing entry to land

        14. Section 70 – Entry to Crown land

      2. Miscellaneous

        1. Section 71 – Duty to establish and maintain a website or other electronic facility

        2. Section 72 - Publication

        3. Section 73 – Provision of administrative, technical or professional services

        4. Section 74 - Guidance

        5. Section 75 – Amendments to the Mines and Quarries (Tips) Act 1969

    5. Part 5 – General

      1. Overview of Part 5

        1. Section 76 - Offences by bodies corporate

        2. Section 77 - Bringing proceedings

        3. Section 78 – Power to make consequential, transitional etc, provision

        4. Section 79 - Regulations under this Act

        5. Section 80 – General provision about giving notices etc.

        6. Section 81 – Additional provision about giving notices etc. to persons occupying or interested in land

        7. Section 82 – Giving notices etc. to the Crown

        8. Section 83 – Raising of money in particular cases to meet expenditure

        9. Section 84 – Church of England land

        10. Section 85 – Power to modify application of Act to Authority land

      2. Interpretation

        1. Section 86 - Meaning of “tip” and “disused tip”

        2. Section 87 - Meaning of “threat to human welfare”

        3. Section 88 – Meaning of “owner”

        4. Section 89 – Definitions relating to the Crown

        5. Section 90 – General interpretation

        6. Section 91 - Index of defined terms

        7. Section 92 – Coming into force

        8. Section 93 – Short title

  4. Record of Proceedings in the Senedd