2025 No. 400 (W. 80)

Town And Country Planning, Wales

The Development Procedure (Consultees) (Wales) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Order 2025

Made

26 March 2025

Laid before Senedd Cymru

31 March 2025

Coming into force

21 April 2025

The Welsh Ministers, in exercise of the powers conferred on the Secretary of State by sections 59(1), (2)(b) and (3)(a) and 74(1)(c) of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990(1) and now exercisable by them(2), and in exercise of the powers conferred on them by sections 61Z(8) and (9), 62R and 333(5B) of that Act(3), make the following Order.

(1)

term the 2015 act term the 1990 act 1990 c. 8 (“the 1990 Act”). Section 59 was amended by section 27 of, and paragraphs 1 and 3 of Schedule 4 to, and section 55 of, and paragraph 5 of Schedule 7 to, the Planning (Wales) Act 2015 (anaw 4) (“the 2015 Act”) and by section 1(2) of, and paragraphs 1 and 4 of Schedule 1 to, the Growth and Infrastructure Act 2013 (c. 27). There are amendments to section 74 which are not relevant to this instrument.

(2)

The functions of the Secretary of State were transferred to the National Assembly for Wales by article 2 of the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/672); see the entry in Schedule 1 for the 1990 Act as substituted by S.I. 2000/253. The functions of the National Assembly for Wales were transferred to the Welsh Ministers by virtue of section 162 of, and paragraphs 30 and 32 of Schedule 11 to, the Government of Wales Act 2006 (c. 32). See also section 59(4) of the 1990 Act which provides that a development order in relation to Wales means a development order made by the Welsh Ministers.

(3)

Section 61Z was inserted by section 17(1) and (2) of the 2015 Act. Section 333(5B) was inserted by section 55 of, and paragraph 6(5) of Schedule 7 to the 2015 Act.