The Strategic Planning (Composition of Panels and Qualifying Expenditure) (Wales) Regulations 2016

Reporting requirements

7.—(1) If the composition requirements are not met, a panel must prepare a report about its compliance with the composition requirements in accordance with this regulation.

(2) The report required under paragraph (1) must contain the following information—

(a) details of how the composition requirements are not met;

(b) the reasons for failing to meet the composition requirements;

(c) the steps taken by the panel and/or constituent local planning authorities to meet the composition requirements.

(3) The report required under paragraph (1) must be signed by the chair of the panel or, in the absence of the chair, by the deputy chair of the panel.

(4) The panel must send the report to the Welsh Ministers within 12 weeks of the date on which the composition requirements are not met.

(5) A panel must, no later than 7 days from the date when it sends a report to the Welsh Ministers under this regulation, notify the constituent local planning authorities of the submission of the report.

(6) In this regulation, reference to a report includes a report as revised.

(7) Any requirement to send a report to the Welsh Ministers under this regulation includes a requirement to publish the report.

(8) The sending of a report to the Welsh Ministers or the publication of it under this regulation includes sending or publishing the report electronically.