Section 16 Derelict land.F1

reclaimimg or improving any land to which this subsection applies; or

enabling any such land to be brought into use,

land which is derelict, neglected or unsightly; and

except as respects the exercise of the power specified in subsection (3)(a) below in relation to a person other than a local authority in whose area it is situated, land which is not derelict, neglected or unsightly but is likely to become so by reason of actual or apprehended collapse of the surface as the result of the carrying out of relevant operations which have ceased to be carried out.

a power to pay to any person grants of such amounts and payable at such times and subject to such conditions as F4it may from time to time determine in respect of relevant expenditure incurred by that person;

a power, after consultation with such local authorities and other bodies as appear to the Assembly to have an interest, to acquire F5. . ., for the purpose mentioned in subsection (1) above, the land to which that subsection applies or any other land; and

a power to carry out, for that purpose, any works on the land to which that subsection applies or any other land;

the carrying out, for the purpose mentioned in subsection (1) above, of any works on the land to which that subsection applies or any other land;

the carrying out of a survey of the land to which that subsection applies for determining whether any works for that purpose should be undertaken (whether or not such works are carried out); and

in relation to a local authority in whose area the land to which that subsection applies is situated, the acquisition, for that purpose, of that land or any other land.

the prescribed percentage of the relevant expenditure; or

in the case of a periodical grant in respect of costs from time to time incurred or treated as incurred in respect of the borrowing of money to defray the relevant expenditure, the prescribed percentage of the costs so incurred or treated as incurred.

a county council or F9county borough council F10. . .

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“relevant operations” means underground mining operations other than operations for the purpose of the working and getting coal, or of coal and other minerals worked with coal, or for the purpose of getting any product from coal in the course of working and getting coal.