1995 - Section 57: Contaminated Land

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Paragraph Headings for Section 57 (Contaminated Land) of the Environment Act 1995

1. Preliminary

2. Identification of Contaminated Land

3. Identification of and designation of Special Sites

4. Referral of Special Site decision to the Secretary of State

5. Duty of enforcing authority to require remediation of Contaminated Land etc

6. Determination of the appropriate person to bear responsibility for remediation

7. Grant of and compensation for, rights of entry etc

8. Restrictions and prohibitions on serving remedial notices

9. no chapter heading

10. Restrictions on liability relating to pollution of controlled waters

11. Liability in respect of contaminated substances which escape to other land

12. Appeals against remediation notices

13. Offences of not complying with remediation notices

14. Powers of enforcing authority to carry out remediation

15. no chapter heading

16. Recovery of and security for the cost of remediation by the enforcing authoritty

17. Special Sites

18. Registers

19. Exclusion from the registers for information affecting National Security

20. Exclusion from the registers of certain confidential information

21. Reports by the appropriate agency on the state of contaminated land

22. Site-specific guidelines by the appropriate Agency concerning contaminated land

23. The appropriate Agency to have regard given by the Secretary of State

24. Supplementary provisions

25. Application to the Isles of Scilly

    YA. Supplementary provisions with respect to
            guidelines by the Secretary of State

    YB. Interaction of this part with other enactments

    YC. This part and radioactivity

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Public General Acts + Measures
Part II, Chapters 21-32, (1995)

Environment Act :- Chapter 25
Section 57 :- pages 1313-1344