38ARecovery of costs of analysis

38A Recovery of costs of analysis

(1) In this section, work conducted in relation to an appropriate authority or public statutory body, means any analysis, measurement, recording, evaluation, testing or inspection conducted by the authority or body through any of its officers, employees or agents.

(2) In any proceedings under this Act in which legal costs are awarded to an appropriate authority or public statutory body or a person appointed by the authority or body to take proceedings, the court may include in those costs the reasonable market cost of any work conducted by the authority or body.

(3) A document which—

(a) sets out charges for work similar to any work conducted by an appropriate authority or public statutory body; or

(b) purports to estimate the reasonable market cost of any work conducted by such an authority or body—

and which is signed by, or on behalf of, a person who purports to be a person who charges for doing any work similar to that conducted by the authority or body is evidence of the reasonable market cost of work conducted by the authority or body.

No. 6705 s. 8A.