The Local Inquiries and Qualifying Procedures (Standard Daily Amount) (Wales) Regulations 2017

Title, commencement, application and interpretation

1.—(1) The title of these Regulations is the Local Inquiries and Qualifying Procedures (Standard Daily Amount) (Wales) Regulations 2017 and they come into force on 5 May 2017.

(2) These Regulations apply in relation to Wales.

(3) These Regulations apply in relation to—

(a) a local inquiry; and

(b) any person appointed by the Welsh Ministers to hold a qualifying procedure.

(4) In these Regulations—

“local inquiry” (“ymchwiliad lleol”) means an inquiry in relation to which the Welsh Ministers are entitled to recover their costs under or by virtue of section 250(4) of the Local Government Act 1972 (general provision as to costs of inquiries)(1) or section 69(5) of the Land Drainage Act 1991 (costs of an inquiry under that Act); and

“qualifying procedure” (“gweithdrefn gymwys”) means a qualifying procedure within the meaning of that term in section 303A(1A) of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990(2).

(1)

1972 c. 70. The functions under section 250(4) of the Local Government Act 1972 were transferred to the National Assembly for Wales by article 2 of, and Schedule 1 to, the 1999 TFO. The functions of the National Assembly for Wales were transferred to the Welsh Ministers by section 162 of, and paragraph 30 of Schedule 11 to, GOWA.

(2)

Section 303(1A) was inserted into the 1990 Act by section 118 of, and paragraph 11 of Schedule 6 to, the 2004 Act.