Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004

General

77 Regulations

(1) The Assembly may by regulations make provision in connection with the exercise of functions conferred by this Part on any person.

(2) The regulations may in particular make provision as to—

(a) the procedure to be followed by the local planning authority in carrying out the appraisal under section 62(6);

(b) the procedure to be followed in the preparation of local development plans;

(c) requirements about the giving of notice and publicity;

(d) requirements about inspection by the public of a plan or any other document;

(e) the nature and extent of consultation with and participation by the public in anything done under this Part;

(f) the making of representations about any matter to be included in a local development plan;

(g) consideration of any such representations;

(h) the remuneration and allowances payable to the person appointed to carry out an independent examination under section 64;

(i) the time at which anything must be done for the purposes of this Part;

(j) the manner of publication of any draft, report or other document published under this Part;

(k) monitoring the exercise by local planning authorities of their functions under this Part.

78 Interpretation

(1) Local development plan must be construed in accordance with section 62.

(2) Local planning authorities are—

(a) county councils in Wales;

(b) county borough councils.

(3) A National Park authority is the local planning authority for the whole of its area and subsection (2) must be construed subject to that.

(4) The Assembly is the National Assembly for Wales.

(5) RSS must be construed in accordance with Part 1.

(6) This section applies for the purposes of this Part.