Prospective
(1)The Welsh Ministers may make an agreement under this section (a “scheduled monument partnership agreement”) with—
(a)any owner of a scheduled monument, or
(b)any owner of land adjoining or in the vicinity of such a monument (“associated land”).
(2)Any of the following persons may also be a party to the agreement (in addition to the owner and the Welsh Ministers)—
(a)any occupier of the monument or its associated land;
(b)any other person who has an interest in the monument or its associated land;
(c)any person involved in the management of the monument or its associated land;
(d)any local authority in whose area the monument or its associated land is situated;
(e)any local authority which, by virtue of Chapter 6, is a guardian of the monument or its associated land;
(f)any other person the Welsh Ministers consider appropriate as having special knowledge of, or special interest in, the monument or in monuments of historic or archaeological interest more generally.
(3)A scheduled monument partnership agreement may grant scheduled monument consent under section 13(1) for specified works for the purpose of—
(a)removing or repairing the monument to which the agreement relates, or
(b)making any alterations or additions to the monument.
(4)Where a scheduled monument partnership agreement grants scheduled monument consent subject to conditions, the agreement must specify those conditions.
(5)A scheduled monument partnership agreement may also—
(a)specify works that would, or would not, in the view of the parties, be works to which section 11 applies;
(b)make provision about the maintenance and preservation of the monument or its associated land;
(c)make provision about the carrying out of specified works, or the doing of any specified thing, in relation to the monument or its associated land;
(d)provide for public access to the monument or its associated land and the provision of associated facilities, information or services to the public;
(e)restrict access to, or use of, the monument or its associated land;
(f)prohibit the doing of any specified thing in relation to the monument or its associated land;
(g)provide for the Welsh Ministers, or any local authority in whose area the monument or its associated land is situated, to make payments of specified amounts and on specified terms—
(i)for or towards the cost of any works provided for under the agreement, or
(ii)in consideration of any restriction, prohibition or obligation accepted by any other party to the agreement.
(6)A scheduled monument partnership agreement may relate to more than one monument or more than one piece of associated land.
(7)In this section “specified” means specified or described in a scheduled monument partnership agreement.
Commencement Information
I1S. 25 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 212(2)