The Ecclesiastical Exemption (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Wales) Order 2018

Welsh Statutory Instruments

2018 No. 1087 (W. 227)

Town And Country Planning, Wales

The Ecclesiastical Exemption (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Wales) Order 2018

Made

15 October 2018

Laid before the National Assembly for Wales

16 October 2018

Coming into force

1 January 2019

The Welsh Ministers, in exercise of the powers conferred on the Secretary of State by sections 60, 75 and 93 of the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990(1), and now exercisable by them(2), make the following Order.

(1)

1990 c. 9. Section 60(2) was amended by section 26(9) of the Historic Environment (Wales) Act 2016 (anaw 4) (“the 2016 Act”). There are other amendments to sections 60 and amendments to section 75 which are not relevant to this instrument. Section 93(5) was amended by section 40(7) of the 2016 Act; section 93(6) was amended by section 40(8) of the 2016 Act. There are other amendments to section 93 which are not relevant to this instrument.

(2)

The functions of the Secretary of State under sections 60, 75 and 93 of the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 were transferred to the National Assembly for Wales by article 2 of, and Schedule 1 to, the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/672), so far as exercisable in relation to Wales. The functions were transferred to the Welsh Ministers by section 162 of, and paragraph 30 of Schedule 11 to, the Government of Wales Act 2006 (c. 32), the functions being relevant Assembly functions as defined in paragraph 30(2).