Historic Environment (Wales) Act 2023

Urgent works for preservation of scheduled monument

61 Works for preservation of scheduled monument in cases of urgency

(1) If it appears to the Welsh Ministers that any works to which section 11 (requirement for works to be authorised) applies are urgently necessary for the preservation of a scheduled monument, they may enter the site of the monument and carry out those works.

(2) Before exercising the power in subsection (1) the Welsh Ministers must give at least 7 clear days’ written notice to every owner and occupier of the monument.

(3) Where the Welsh Ministers carry out works under this section for repairing any damage to a scheduled monument—

(a) any compensation order previously made in respect of that damage under Chapter 2 of Part 7 of the Sentencing Code in favour of any other person is enforceable (so far as not already complied with) as if it had been made in favour of the Welsh Ministers, and

(b) any such order subsequently made in respect of that damage must be made in favour of the Welsh Ministers.

(4) Where works are carried out under this section, the works are to be treated as authorised works for the purposes of Chapter 3 (control of works affecting scheduled monuments).