s 30C Coastal Protection Interpretation Plan
30C.—(1) For the purposes of this Part, the Board must prepare, maintain and keep up to date a Coastal Protection Interpretation Plan (CPIP) that describes, details or delineates the following:(a) any or any part of an absolute protection boundary and a protection boundary at a prescribed place, and the part of the sea treated as seaward of any or any part of an absolute protection boundary; (b) any or any part of a transiently floodable area (coastal); (c) any coastal protection measure or any part of a coastal protection measure for a prescribed place; (d) any coastal protection safety corridor; (e) any coastal protection reserve, being the area at a prescribed place estimated to be required —(i) for any future expansion of the coastal protection measure for the prescribed place under section 30E(5); and (ii) to access the coastal protection measure for the prescribed place (including after any expansion mentioned in sub-paragraph (i)) to —(A) maintain and repair the coastal protection measure; and (B) inspect and monitor the coastal protection measure. (2) Nothing in this section prevents the Board from including in the CPIP any other information, including any description, detail or delineation of any coastal protection measure or part that is proposed to be or is being put in place for a prescribed place. (3) For the purpose of describing, detailing or delineating in the CPIP any matter in subsection (1), the Board may include in the CPIP any map or three-dimensional image. (4) The Board may, from time to time, amend any description, detail or delineation in the CPIP of any matter in subsection (1) or (2). (5) The CPIP need not be published in the Gazette, and may be maintained electronically. (6) The Board must make provision for the inspection of the CPIP over one or more platforms, whether or not hosted by the Board, and the Board may determine what information in the CPIP may be inspected on any such platform. (7) Regulations made under section 74 may provide —(a) for the persons who may inspect the CPIP, and the parts of the CPIP that may be so inspected, on any platform; (b) the assignment of authentication codes and accounts to persons permitted to inspect the CPIP; (c) the circumstances under which authentication codes and accounts may be cancelled or suspended; (d) where the CPIP may be inspected and (as appropriate) the time during which the CPIP may be inspected; (e) that copies of any part of the CPIP may be purchased, how the copies may be purchased and the fee payable for the copies; and (f) if copies of any part of the CPIP are available in other ways, the details of where or how the copies may be accessed or obtained. (8) Despite any other Act, any electronic record of any part of the CPIP, or a copy or printout of that electronic record, is, in any proceedings under this Act, admissible as evidence of the facts stated or contained therein if that electronic record, copy or printout is authenticated —(a) by a certificate which —(i) gives the particulars of any person or device involved in the production or transmission of the electronic record, copy or printout; (ii) identifies the nature of the electronic record, copy or printout; and (iii) purports to be signed by the Chief Executive of the Board, or an officer of the Board that the Chief Executive designates; or (b) in the manner provided in the Evidence Act 1893 for the authentication of computer output.[Act 8 of 2026 wef 29/05/2026]