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CONTAMINATED SITES ACT 2003 - SECT 57

CONTAMINATED SITES ACT 2003 - SECT 57

57 .         Liability for losses

                Except as may be otherwise prescribed, a person responsible for remediation of a site or a person on whom a notice under Part 4 is binding who, with the permission of the occupier or owner of land, as is relevant, enters that land to take any action necessary to enable the person to carry out the remediation or to comply with the requirements of the notice is liable —

            (a)         to that occupier for any loss suffered by the occupier as a result of that entry or those actions, including any loss suffered by the occupier due to interruption to the business of the occupier on that land; and

            (b)         to the owner of the land for any loss suffered by the owner as a result of that entry or those actions, including any loss suffered by the owner due to interruption to the business of the owner on that land or any injury to the land caused by that person.