Commentary on Sections Part 2 — Monuments of special historic interest Chapter 5 — Enforcement of controls relating to scheduled monuments
110.This Chapter sets out that it is an offence to carry out, or cause or permit to be carried out, unauthorised works in relation to a scheduled monument (section 30). It provides the Welsh Ministers with the powers to issue a temporary stop notice to put an immediate halt to works that either breach section 11 or a condition of a consent (sections 31 to 34). It also provides for an enforcement notice, which may be used to specify steps to be taken to remedy the effects of unauthorised works and provision is made for the service and taking effect of a notice as well as for an appeal against it (sections 35 to 41). The Chapter also provides for injunctions to restrain actual or expected breaches of section 11 or failures to comply with scheduled monument consent conditions (section 42).