Disused Mine and Quarry Tips (Wales) Act 2025

Management plans for registered tips

57 Management plans

(1) The Authority must prepare and maintain a management plan for every disused tip in the register which is a category 1 tip or category 2 tip.

(2) The management plan for a disused tip to which subsection (1) applies must be prepared as soon as practicable after the tip is first recorded in the register as a category 1 tip or category 2 tip.

(3) The Authority may at any time prepare and maintain a management plan for a disused tip in the register which is a category 3 tip or category 4 tip.

(4) A management plan must set out—

(a) how the Authority intends to exercise its functions under this Act in relation to the tip (including details of any information or advice that it intends to give to owners or occupiers of land under section 3);

(b) information that the Authority considers may be relevant in an emergency involving the tip;

(c) information about the roles and responsibilities of the Authority and other public authorities in such an emergency;

(d) how the Authority intends to co-operate with those public authorities in such an emergency.

(5) A management plan may include any other information that the Authority considers appropriate.