116 Recovery of costs of compliance with notice of unauthorised development

116  Recovery of costs of compliance with notice of unauthorised development

(1)     Where a relevant planning authority or the Welsh Ministers exercise the power under section 115(1) to enter land and take a step required by a notice of unauthorised development, the planning authority or the Welsh Ministers (as the case may be) may recover from a person who is then an owner of the land the costs reasonably incurred in doing so.

(2)     If a relevant planning authority or the Welsh Ministers seek to recover costs under subsection (1) from an owner of land who—

(a)     is entitled to receive the rack rent of the land merely as agent or trustee for another person (the “principal”), and

(b)     does

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