Section 43 – Open-floor hearings
119.Section 43 provides the Welsh Ministers with a power to make regulations to require an examining authority to cause an open-floor hearing to be held in connection with the examination of an application under Part 4. And the regulations may make the requirement to hold an open-floor hearing subject to conditions. In this section an “open-floor hearing” is where each interested party is entitled to make oral representations about the application, subject to the examining authority’s powers of control over the conduct of the hearing.
