Infrastructure (Wales) Act 2024 / Deddf Seilwaith (Cymru) 2024
Infrastructure (Wales) Act 2024 / Deddf Seilwaith (Cymru) 2024 (2024 c. 3)
- Infrastructure (Wales) Act 2024 / Deddf Seilwaith (Cymru) 2024 (2024 c. 3)
- PART 1 SIGNIFICANT INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS
- Key term
- 1 Meaning of “significant infrastructure project”
- Energy
- 2 Electricity infrastructure
- 3 Liquified natural gas facilities
- 4 Gas reception facilities
- 5 Hydraulic fracturing for oil and gas and coal gasification
- 6 Open cast coal mining
- Transport
- 7 Highways
- 8 Railways
- 9 Rail freight interchanges
- 10 Harbour facilities
- 11 Airports
- Water
- 12 Dams and reservoirs
- 13 Transfer of water resources
- Waste water
- 14 Waste water treatment plants
- Waste
- 15 Hazardous waste facilities
- 16 Radioactive waste geological disposal facilities
- Power to amend
- 17 Power to add, vary or remove projects
- Interpretation
- 18 Cross-border projects
- PART 2 REQUIREMENT FOR INFRASTRUCTURE CONSENT
- The requirement
- 19 Requirement for infrastructure consent
- 20 Effect of requirement for infrastructure consent
- Powers to change the requirement or its effect
- 21 Power to add or remove types of consent
- 22 Directions specifying development as a significant infrastructure project
- 23 Directions for applications to be treated as applications for infrastructure consent
- 24 Directions specifying that development is not a significant infrastructure project
- 25 Directions under section 22 to 24: general provision
- 26 Directions under section 22: regulations about procedure
- PART 3 APPLYING FOR INFRASTRUCTURE CONSENT
- Assistance for applicants
- 27 Provision of pre-application services
- 28 Obtaining information about interests in land
- Pre-application procedure
- 29 Notice of proposed application
- 30 Pre-application consultation and publicity
- 31 Change in the person who proposes to apply for infrastructure consent
- Application procedure
- 32 Applying for infrastructure consent
- 33 Deciding on the validity of an application and notifying the applicant
- 34 Notice of accepted applications and publicity
- 35 Regulations about notices and publicity
- 36 Local impact reports
- 37 Marine impact reports
- 38 Notice of persons interested in land to which compulsory acquisition request relates
- 39 Consultation post-application in relation to compulsory acquisition
- PART 4 EXAMINING APPLICATIONS
- Appointing an examining authority
- 40 Appointing an examining authority
- Examining applications
- 41 Examining authority to examine applications
- 42 Choice of inquiry, hearing or written procedure
- 43 Open-floor hearings
- 44 Examination procedure
- 45 Power to enter land in connection with examination
- 46 Power to enter Crown land in connection with examination
- 47 Power of examining authority to hold local inquiry
- 48 Access to evidence at inquiry
- 49 Payment of appointed representative where access to evidence restricted
- 50 Assessors
- 51 Legal assistance
- 52 Reports by examining authority
- 53 Power to direct further examination
- 54 Orders relating to costs of parties on examination proceedings
- PART 5 DECIDING APPLICATIONS FOR INFRASTRUCTURE CONSENT
- Decision maker
- 55 Function of deciding applications
- Statutory policies and other relevant matters
- 56 Deciding applications: general considerations
- 57 Duty to have regard to specific matters when making decisions on applications
- 58 Matters that may be disregarded when making decisions on applications
- Timetable
- 59 Timetable for deciding application for infrastructure consent
- The decision
- 60 Grant or refusal of infrastructure consent
- 61 Development for which infrastructure consent may be granted
- 62 Reasons for decision to grant or refuse infrastructure consent
- PART 6 INFRASTRUCTURE CONSENT ORDERS
- Provision in orders: general
- 63 What may be included in an infrastructure consent order
- Provision in orders authorising compulsory acquisition
- 64 Purpose for which compulsory acquisition may be authorised
- 65 Land to which authorisation of compulsory acquisition can relate
- 66 Application of compulsory acquisition provisions
- 67 Compensation for compulsory acquisition
- 68 Statutory undertakers’ land
- 69 National Trust land
- 70 Commons, open spaces etc: compulsory acquisition of land
- 71 Commons, open spaces etc: compulsory acquisition of rights over land
- 72 Notice of authorisation of compulsory acquisition
- Provision in orders: specific limitations and powers
- 73 Public rights of way
- 74 Power to override easements and other rights
- 75 Extinguishment of rights, and removal of apparatus, of statutory undertakers etc.
- 76 Crown land
- 77 Operation of generating stations
- 78 Keeping electric lines installed above ground
- 79 Diversion of watercourses
- 80 Highways
- 81 Harbours
- 82 Discharge of water
- 83 Deemed consent under a marine licence
- 84 Removing consent requirements and deeming consents
- Procedure for infrastructure consent orders
- 85 Infrastructure consent orders: publication and procedure
- Changing and revoking infrastructure consent orders etc.
- 86 Meaning of “decision documents” and “error”
- 87 Power to correct errors in decision documents
- 88 Correcting errors: regulations
- Making changes to, and revoking, infrastructure consent orders
- 89 Definitions
- 90 Power to change or revoke infrastructure consent orders
- 91 Procedure: changing and revoking infrastructure consent orders
- 92 Changing and revoking infrastructure consent orders: formalities
- 93 Changing or revoking an infrastructure consent order: compensation
- Effect of infrastructure consent orders
- 94 Duration of infrastructure consent order
- 95 When development begins
- 96 Legal challenges
- 97 Benefit of infrastructure consent order
- 98 Planning obligations
- 99 Blighted land
- 100 Nuisance: statutory authority
- 101 Compensation in case where defence of statutory authority applies
- Interpretation
- 102 Meaning of “land”
- PART 7 ENFORCEMENT
- Offences
- 103 Development without infrastructure consent
- 104 Breach of terms of infrastructure consent order
- 105 Time limits
- 106 Powers to enter land for enforcement purposes
- 107 Warrant to enter land
- 108 Rights of entry: supplementary provisions
- 109 Rights of entry: Crown land
- 110 Marine enforcement powers
- Information notices
- 111 Power to require information
- 112 Offences of failing to comply with information notices
- Notices of unauthorised development
- 113 Notice of unauthorised development
- Compliance with notices of unauthorised development
- 114 Order to permit steps required by notice of unauthorised development
- 115 Power to enter land and take steps required by notice of unauthorised development
- 116 Recovery of costs of compliance with notice of unauthorised development
- Temporary stop notices
- 117 Power to issue temporary stop notice
- 118 Restrictions on power to issue temporary stop notice
- 119 Duration etc. of temporary stop notice
- 120 Offence of breaching temporary stop notice
- 121 Compensation for loss due to notice
- 122 Injunction to restrain prohibited activity
- General
- 123 Meaning of “relevant planning authority”
- PART 8 SUPPLEMENTARY FUNCTIONS
- Fees
- 124 Fees for performance of infrastructure consent functions and services
- Right of entry
- 125 Powers of entry to survey land
- 126 Powers of entry to survey land: Crown land
- Infrastructure policy statements
- 127 Infrastructure policy statements
- Register of applications and pre-application services
- 128 Register of applications and pre-application services
- Statutory consultees
- 129 Power to consult and duty to respond to consultation
- Welsh Ministers’ directions
- 130 Directions to public authorities
- 131 Power to disapply requirements
- Regulations about Crown applications
- 132 Applications by the Crown
- PART 9 GENERAL PROVISIONS
- Development
- 133 Meaning of “development”
- Crown land
- 134 Crown land and “the appropriate Crown authority”
- Offences
- 135 Offences by bodies corporate
- Giving notices and other documents
- 136 Giving notices and other documents
- 137 Giving notices etc. to persons occupying or with an interest in land
- 138 Giving documents to the Crown
- General
- 139 Duties to publish
- 140 Regulations and orders: restrictions
- 141 Regulations: procedure
- 142 Directions: general
- 143 General interpretation
- 144 Power to make consequential and transitional provision etc.
- 145 Consequential amendments and repeals
- 146 Transitional and saving provision
- 147 Coming into force
- 148 Short title
- SCHEDULE 1 PROVISION RELATING TO, OR TO MATTERS ANCILLARY TO, DEVELOPMENT
- PART 1 THE MATTERS
- PART 2 INTERPRETATION
- SCHEDULE 2 COMPENSATION FOR CHANGING OR REVOKING INFRASTRUCTURE CONSENT ORDERS
- Changing or revoking an infrastructure consent order: compensation
- Compensation for depreciation: introduction and key terms
- Apportionment of compensation for depreciation and determination of disputes
- Notice of compensation for depreciation
- Development not to be carried out until compensation paid or secured
- Amount recoverable by Welsh Ministers in respect of compensation
- Payment etc. of amount recoverable
- Recovery of compensation from acquiring authority on compulsory acquisition or sale
- General provisions about compensation for depreciation
- Determination of claims for compensation
- SCHEDULE 3 CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS AND REPEALS
- Harbours Act 1964 (c. 40)
- Highways Act 1980 (c. 66)
- Electricity Act 1989 (c. 29)
- Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (c. 8)
- Planning (Hazardous Substances) Act 1990 (c. 10)
- New Roads and Street Works Act 1991 (c. 22)
- Transport and Works Act 1992 (c. 42)
- Coal Industry Act 1994 (c. 21)
- Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 (c. 5)
- Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009 (c. 23)
- Flood and Water Management Act 2010 (c. 29)
- Planning (Wales) Act 2015 (anaw 4)
- Infrastructure Act 2015 (c. 7)
- Housing and Planning Act 2016 (c. 22)
- Historic Environment (Wales) Act 2023 (asc 3)
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