The Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2008

Statutory Instruments

2008 No. 2335 (W.198)

TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING, WALES

The Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2008

Made

31 August 2008

Laid before the National Assembly for Wales

2 September 2008

Coming into force

6 October 2008

The Welsh Ministers are designated(1) for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972(2) in relation to the requirement for an assessment of the impact on the environment of projects likely to have significant effects on the environment, in so far as it concerns town and country planning.

The Welsh Ministers make these Regulations in exercise of the powers vested in them by section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 and conferred by section 333 of, and paragraph 1 of Schedule 6 to, the Town and Country Planning Act 1990(3).

(1)

S.I. 2007/1679.

(2)

1972 c. 68. The enabling powers of section 2(2) were extended by virtue of the amendment of section 1(2) by section 1 of the European Economic Area Act 1993 (c. 51).

(3)

1990 c. 8; paragraph 1 of Schedule 6 was amended by section 120 of, and Schedule 22, paragraph 44 to, the Environment Act 1995 (c. 25). These powers are now vested in the Welsh Ministers so far as they are exercisable in relation to Wales. They were previously 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 as substituted article 4 of, and by Schedule 3, paragraph (d) to the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 2000 (S.I. 2000/253). By virtue of section 162 of, and paragraph 30 of Schedule 11 to the Government of Wales Act 2006 (c. 32) they were transferred to the Welsh Ministers.