Section 22 – Directions specifying development as a significant infrastructure project
46.Section 22 provides that the Welsh Ministers may give a direction specifying that a specific development is a significant infrastructure project, if—
the development, when completed, is wholly or partly in Wales or the Welsh marine area,
the development is or forms part of a project that the Welsh Ministers consider to be of national significance, and
the development is of a description specified in regulations.
47.Subsection (3) clarifies that the power of direction under subsection (1) applies to a development only to the extent that the development is in Wales or in the Welsh marine area.
48.Subsection (4) provides that the Welsh Ministers may require an authority to which an application for consent or authorisation has been, or may be, made to provide any information required by the Welsh Ministers to enable them to make a direction under subsection (1) and under which terms the direction should be given.
