Legislation – Infrastructure (Wales) Act 2024
PART 1
SIGNIFICANT INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS
1 Meaning of “significant infrastructure project”
3 Liquified natural gas facilities
5 Hydraulic fracturing for oil and gas and coal gasification
13 Transfer of water resources
14 Waste water treatment plants
16 Radioactive waste geological disposal facilities
17 Power to add, vary or remove projects
PART 2
REQUIREMENT FOR INFRASTRUCTURE CONSENT
19 Requirement for infrastructure consent
20 Effect of requirement for infrastructure consent
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
27 Provision of pre-application services
28 Obtaining information about interests in land
29 Notice of proposed application
30 Pre-application consultation and publicity
31 Change in the person who proposes to apply for infrastructure consent
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
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
40 Appointing an examining authority
41 Examining authority to examine applications
42 Choice of inquiry, hearing or written 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
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
55 Function of deciding applications
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
59 Timetable for deciding application for infrastructure consent
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
63 What may be included in an infrastructure consent order
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
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
74 Power to override easements and other rights
75 Extinguishment of rights, and removal of apparatus, of statutory undertakers etc.
77 Operation of generating stations
78 Keeping electric lines installed above ground
83 Deemed consent under a marine licence
84 Removing consent requirements and deeming consents
85 Infrastructure consent orders: publication and procedure
86 Meaning of “decision documents” and “error”
87 Power to correct errors in decision documents
88 Correcting errors: regulations
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
94 Duration of infrastructure consent order
97 Benefit of infrastructure consent order
100 Nuisance: statutory authority
101 Compensation in case where defence of statutory authority applies
PART 7
ENFORCEMENT
103 Development without infrastructure consent
104 Breach of terms of infrastructure consent order
106 Powers to enter land for enforcement purposes
108 Rights of entry: supplementary provisions
109 Rights of entry: Crown land
111 Power to require information
112 Offences of failing to comply with information notices
113 Notice 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
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
123 Meaning of “relevant planning authority”
PART 8
SUPPLEMENTARY FUNCTIONS
124 Fees for performance of infrastructure consent functions and services
125 Powers of entry to survey land
126 Powers of entry to survey land: Crown land
127 Infrastructure policy statements
128 Register of applications and pre-application services
129 Power to consult and duty to respond to consultation
130 Directions to public authorities
131 Power to disapply requirements
PART 9
GENERAL PROVISIONS
134 Crown land and “the appropriate Crown authority”
135 Offences by bodies corporate
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
140 Regulations and orders: restrictions
144 Power to make consequential and transitional provision etc.
145 Consequential amendments and repeals
146 Transitional and saving provision
SCHEDULES
SCHEDULE 1 PROVISION RELATING TO, OR TO MATTERS ANCILLARY TO, DEVELOPMENT
SCHEDULE 2 COMPENSATION FOR CHANGING OR REVOKING INFRASTRUCTURE CONSENT ORDERS
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SCHEDULE 1PROVISION RELATING TO, OR TO MATTERS ANCILLARY TO, DEVELOPMENT
PART 1THE MATTERS
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The creation, suspension or extinguishment of, or interference with, interests in or rights over land (including navigation over water), compulsorily or by agreement.