Prospective
(1)A relevant authority may, for the purpose of enabling it to make an order or issue or serve a notice or other document under or by virtue of this Act (except Chapter 2 of Part 6), serve an information notice on—
(a)an occupier of any land, or
(b)a person who receives rent (either directly or indirectly) in respect of any land.
(2)An information notice is a notice requiring the person on whom it is served to give the relevant authority information in writing about the matters specified in the notice.
(3)The matters that may be specified are—
(a)the nature of the person’s interest in the land to which the notice relates;
(b)the name and postal address of any other person known to the person as having an interest in the land;
(c)the purpose for which the land is being used;
(d)the time when the use of the land for that purpose started;
(e)the name and postal address of any person known to the person on whom the notice is served as having used the land for that purpose;
(f)the time when any activities being carried out on the land started.
(4)An information notice may require information to be given within—
(a)21 days beginning with the day after the day the notice is served, or
(b)any longer period specified by the notice or allowed by the relevant authority.
(5)In this section “relevant authority” means the Welsh Ministers or a local authority.
Commencement Information
I1S. 383 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 409(2)