Local inquiries
29.—(1) The Welsh Ministers may cause a local inquiry to be held for the purposes of the exercise of any function of the Welsh Ministers under these Regulations.
(2) In relation to a local inquiry held under these Regulations, subsections (2) to (5) of section 250 (power to direct inquiries) of the Local Government Act 1972(1) apply—
(a)as they apply in relation to local inquiries held under that Act;
(b)with the deletion of the words “local authority or” from subsection (4) (provisions as to Secretary of State’s costs of holding inquiries); and
(c)as if references in subsections (4) and (5) (provisions as to orders for the payment of costs of parties to inquiries) to the Minister, were references to the Welsh Ministers.
1972 c. 70. Subsection (2) was amended by the Statue Law (Repeals) Act 1989 (c. 43). Subsection (3) was amended by sections 37, 38 and 46 of the Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c. 48). Subsection (4) was amended by the Housing and Planning Act 1986 (c. 63), section 49(2), and Schedule 12, Part III.