7Expert team

7 Expert team

A team of persons is an expert team in respect of an activity, specified in Column 1 of a table to any subregulation in regulations 13 and 14 , that is carried out in relation to a dam to which that subregulation applies, if –

(a) the team consists of at least 3 persons, of whom at least one has Class 1 competence in respect of the activity; and

(b) the team contains persons with professional expertise such that for each of the following areas, in so far as they relate to that dam and activity, there is at least one person in the team with professional expertise in the area:

(i) construction practices;

(ii) dam design;

(iii) engineering geology;

(iv) engineering surveying;

(v) evaluation of properties of materials;

(vi) hydraulics;

(vii) hydrology;

(viii) instrumentation;

(ix) mechanical design;

(x) soil and rock mechanics;

(xi) structural design.