{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/disused-mine-and-quarry-tips-wales-act-2025/section-44",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/disused-mine-and-quarry-tips-wales-act-2025/section-44.json",
  "legislation": "asc/2025/4",
  "legislation_title": "Disused Mine and Quarry Tips (Wales) Act 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/disused-mine-and-quarry-tips-wales-act-2025",
  "path": "section/44",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "44",
  "heading": "Authority’s power to carry out operations",
  "text": "(1) The Authority may carry out operations on any land if it considers it necessary to do so to achieve the following objective, but this is subject to section 46.\n(2) The objective is to—\n(a) prevent or deal with threats to the stability of a disused tip, or\n(b) stabilise a disused tip or prevent a disused tip from becoming more unstable,\nso as to avoid or reduce threats to human welfare.\n(3) Where the Authority carries out operations under subsection (1), it may also carry out any consequential works of reinstatement that it considers are reasonably necessary.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 44 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 92(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asc/2025/4/section/44",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:17:42.487764+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}