The Size and Composition of Local Planning Authority Committees (Wales) Regulations 2017 No. 459 (W. 97)

Welsh Statutory Instruments

2017 No. 459 (W. 97)

Town And Country Planning, Wales

The Size and Composition of Local Planning Authority Committees (Wales) Regulations 2017

Made

21 March 2017

Coming into force

5 May 2017

The Welsh Ministers, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by sections 319ZB and 319ZC of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990(1), and conferred on the Secretary of State by section 333 of that Act(2) now exercisable by them(3), make the following Regulations.

(1)

1990 c. 8. Sections 319ZB and 319ZC were inserted into that Act by section 39(1) of the Planning (Wales) Act 2015 (anaw 4).

(2)

Section 333 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 was amended by section 55 of, and paragraph 3 of Schedule 7 to, the Planning (Wales) Act 2015. There are other amendments to section 333 not relevant to these Regulations.

(3)

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 Town and Country Planning Act 1990. 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).