Historic Environment (Wales) Act 2023

Prospective

150 Grant by Welsh Ministers for repair or maintenance of building, garden etc. E+W

(1) The Welsh Ministers may make grants to meet any expenditure incurred, or to be incurred, in—

(a) the repair or maintenance of a building which they consider to be of special architectural or historic interest,

(b) the maintenance of any land which includes, adjoins or is adjacent to such a building,

(c) the repair or maintenance of any objects ordinarily kept in such a building, or

(d) the maintenance of a garden or other land which they consider to be of special historic interest.

(2) The following provisions of this section apply where—

(a) the Welsh Ministers make a grant under subsection (1) on terms which provide for it to be recoverable under this section, and

(b) before or on making the grant the Welsh Ministers give notice in writing to the recipient of the grant which—

(i) summarises the effect of this section, and

(ii) specifies a period, beginning with the day the grant is made and ending not more than 10 years after that day, during which the grant is to be recoverable in accordance with subsections (4) to (6) (“the recovery period”).

(3) If any condition imposed on the making of the grant is not complied with, the Welsh Ministers may recover the amount of the grant, or any part of that amount, from the recipient of the grant.

(4) Subsections (5) and (6) apply if during the recovery period—

(a) there is a disposal of the whole or part of the interest that the recipient of the grant held in the building, land or objects to which the grant relates on the day the grant was made (“the relevant interest”), and

(b) the disposal is made by sale, by exchange or by lease for a term of at least 21 years.

(5) If the disposal is made by the recipient of the grant or by a person to whom the recipient of the grant has given a part of the relevant interest, the Welsh Ministers may recover the amount of the grant, or any part of that amount, from the recipient of the grant.

(6) If the disposal is made by a person to whom the recipient of the grant has given the whole of the relevant interest, the Welsh Ministers may recover the amount of the grant, or any part of that amount, from the person to whom the gift was made.

(7) The Welsh Ministers may not recover amounts under this section which in aggregate exceed the amount of the grant.

(8) In this section references to giving an interest to a person are references to giving it to the person directly or indirectly, other than on the death of the holder of the interest.

Commencement Information

I1 S. 150 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 212(2)