Coast Protection Act, 1963
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Preliminary examination by the Commissioners. |
3.—(1) On receipt by the Commissioners from the promoting authority of— | |
(a) a certified copy of a resolution by the promoting authority for the purposes of subsection (3) of section 2 of this Act, | ||
(b) a copy of the report under subsection (2) of section 2 of this Act, | ||
(c) an undertaking by the promoting authority that if, after the carrying out by the Commissioners of a preliminary examination of the encroachment of the sea, the Commissioners make a determination under paragraph (a) of subsection (1) of section 4 of this Act or the promoting authority make a declaration under paragraph (a) of subsection (1) of section 5 of this Act, the promoting authority will pay the amount which will become appropriate to be paid by them when a notice under subsection (1) of section 26 of this Act has been served, and | ||
(d) a map or plan showing in sufficient detail the site of the encroachment of the sea and the extent of the land and other property being damaged or liable to be endangered thereby, | ||
the Commissioners may undertake a preliminary examination of the encroachment of the sea. | ||
(2) In a case in which the encroachment of the sea affects land in two or more counties, the reference in paragraph (a) of subsection (1) of this section to a certified copy of a resolution by the promoting authority for the purposes of subsection (3) of section 2 of this Act shall be construed as a reference to certified copies of resolutions by the councils of those counties for those purposes. | ||
(3) It shall be lawful for the Commissioners and their officers, agents and servants to enter on any lands at all reasonable times and there do all such things as may appear to them to be necessary or expedient for the purposes of the making of a preliminary examination under this section. |