s 30G Obligations of owners of adjacent prescribed places and connections between coastal protection measures
30G.—(1) This section applies where any part of an absolute protection boundary runs continuously through 2 prescribed places adjacent to each other. (2) So much of a coastal protection measure or a part of a coastal protection measure for one of the prescribed places, must be connected to a coastal protection measure or a part of a coastal protection measure for the other prescribed place, as specified by the Board in any clearance certificate or approval granted by the Board relating to each coastal protection measure or part, or any of them (called in this section necessary connection) in accordance with any code of practice under section 32 for the connection of coastal protection measures. (3) The Board may provide any part of the plans submitted to it for a coastal protection measure or a part of a coastal protection measure for one of the prescribed places (prescribed place A) (including for any expansion thereof), to an owner of an adjacent prescribed place as may be necessary to enable the owner of the adjacent prescribed place to ensure that the necessary connection is effected. (4) The part of the plans provided by the Board under subsection (3) may be all or any of the following plans:(a) the plans submitted to the Board for —(i) the acceptance mentioned in section 30E(3)(a) of the coastal protection measure or part mentioned in subsection (3) for prescribed place A; or (ii) the clearance certificate or approval relating to the coastal protection measure or part mentioned in that subsection for prescribed place A; (b) the plans accepted or approved by the Board for the compliance certificate or completion certificate for the coastal protection measure or part mentioned in that subsection for prescribed place A. (5) Where the Board has granted a clearance certificate or an approval under section 33 relating to a coastal protection measure or a part of a coastal protection measure for one of the prescribed places (prescribed place A) but not yet for the other, then, unless regulations made under section 74 provide otherwise —(a) the owner of the other prescribed place (prescribed place B) must ensure that the necessary connection is effected, and must alter (subject to section 30H) the coastal protection measure or part for prescribed place A, or put in place a part of a coastal protection measure at prescribed place A (subject to section 30E), as may be necessary for this purpose; and (b) the owner of prescribed place B is responsible for the costs and expenses of effecting the necessary connection, including the costs and expenses of any matter mentioned in paragraph (a). (6) Regulations made under section 74 may provide —(a) that (despite subsection (5)) the costs and expenses of effecting the necessary connection and any matter mentioned in subsection (5)(a) are to be —(i) borne by the owner of prescribed place B; (ii) borne by the owner of prescribed place A; or (iii) shared between both owners, and the manner or methodology of apportioning the costs and expenses for such sharing; and (b) for the recovery by one owner from the other owner of any costs and expenses or portion of costs and expenses due to the firstmentioned owner from the other owner, by virtue of regulations mentioned in paragraph (a). (7) Where an owner of a prescribed place contravenes subsection (5)(a) or any regulations mentioned in subsection (5), the Board may serve on the owner a written notice requiring the owner to rectify the contravention within the time specified in the notice. (8) The Board may impose as a condition of a clearance certificate or approval under section 33(7) that where an owner of a prescribed place puts in place any part of a coastal protection measure at an adjacent prescribed place for the purpose of effecting a necessary connection, the owner of the firstmentioned prescribed place must ensure that —(a) any warranty against defects in respect of the part of the coastal protection measure; and (b) any undertaking to make good the defects at the costs and expenses of the person providing the warranty, extends to the owner of the adjacent prescribed place. [Act 8 of 2026 wef 29/05/2026]