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LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1972 - SECT 98

1971 c.17

98.(1) A person authorised in writing by a council (in this section referred
to as an "authorised person") may, on production if required of his
credentials, at any reasonable time enter any land

(a)for the purpose of survey, valuation or examination

(i)where the council proposes to acquire the land otherwise than by agreement,
or

(ii)where it appears to the council that survey, valuation or examination is
necessary in order to determine whether any functions of the council should be
exercised on or with respect to the land;

(b)for the purpose of exercising any function that the council has power to
exercise on or with respect to the land;

[(c)for the purpose of determining whether, and if so in what manner, such a
function should be exercised.]

(2) A power of entry under subsection (1) shall not be exercisable in relation
to any land except

(a)with consent given by the occupier of the land; or

(b)where entry is sought for the sole purpose of examination, after at least
twenty-four hours' notice of the intended entry has been served on the
occupier or owner of the land; or

(c)where entry is sought for any other purpose, after at least six days'
notice of the intended entry has been served on the occupier and on the owner,
if the owner is known;

(3) If any person, other than the owner or occupier of the land, knowingly
prevents an authorised person from doing on the land any act that the
authorised person is duly authorised to do or obstructs the authorised person
in doing any such act, he shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on
summary conviction to a fine not exceeding #50.

(4) If any person, being the owner or occupier of land, knowingly prevents an
authorised person from doing on the land any act that the authorised person is
duly authorised to do or obstructs the authorised person in doing any such
act, a court of summary jurisdiction on proof thereof may order him to permit
to be done on the land that act and all such things as are reasonably
necessary to enable the act to be done or as are incidental to the doing of
it; and, if he fails to comply with the order, he shall be guilty of an
offence and shall, for every day during which the failure continues, be liable
on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding #20.

(5) Where under this section an authorised person enters any land, he shall
ensure that the land is not left less secure by reason of the entry, and the
council shall make good or pay compensation for any damage to property caused
by the authorised person in entering the land, in doing any act on the land or
in making the land secure.

(6) Any question of disputed compensation under this section shall be referred
to and determined by the Lands Tribunal.

(7) Any reference in this section to an occupier or to an owner shall be
construed as including a reference to a person appointed in writing by the
occupier or owner as his representative for purposes which include all or any
of the purposes of this section.

(8) Any power conferred by this section to survey land shall be construed as
including power to ascertain or fix boundaries, or to search and bore for the
purpose of ascertaining the course of any sewers or drains or of ascertaining
the nature of the subsoil or the presence of minerals therein, or both, and to
take and carry away, for the purpose of examination, specimens of the subsoil
or minerals, or both, found therein.

Power to enter on land.



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