PART 2ANCIENT MONUMENTS ETC

Scheduled monument consent

10Compensation for refusal of scheduled monument consent

(1)In section 7 of the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979 (c.46), in subsection (4), at the beginning insert “In the case of a monument situated in England,”.

(2)After that subsection insert—

(4A)In the case of a monument situated in Wales, a person is not entitled to compensation under this section by virtue of subsection (2)(b) if the works in question or any of them would or might result in the total or partial demolition or destruction of the monument, unless those works consist solely of operations involved in or incidental to the use of the site of the monument for purposes specified by the Welsh Ministers by regulations.