Planning (Wales) Act 2026

Prospective

359 Interpretation of this Part E+W

(1) In this Part—

• “the affected area” (“yr ardal yr effeithir arni”), in relation to an agricultural unit, means so much of the unit as, on the day a blight notice is served in respect of the unit, consists of blighted land;

• “annual value” (“gwerth blynyddol”) has the meaning given by Part 2 of Schedule 19;

• “appropriate authority” (“awdurdod priodol”) has the meaning given by Part 3 of Schedule 19;

• “appropriate enactment” (“deddfiad priodol”) has the meaning given by Part 4 of Schedule 19;

• “billing authority” (“awdurdod bilio”) has the meaning given by section 1(2) of the Local Government Finance Act 1992 (c. 14);

• “blight notice” (“hysbysiad malltod”) has the meaning given by section 323(2);

• “blighted land” (“tir o dan falltod”) has the meaning given by section 323(1);

• “the claimant” (“yr hawlydd”), in relation to a blight notice, means the person who served the notice;

• “the claimant’s interest” (“buddiant yr hawlydd”) means the interest that a blight notice requires the appropriate authority to purchase;

• “hereditament” (“hereditament”) means a relevant hereditament within the meaning given by section 64(4)(a) to (c) of the Local Government Finance Act 1988 (c. 41) (lands and mines);

• “infrastructure policy statement” (“datganiad polisi seliwaith”) has the meaning given by section 127(2) of the Infrastructure (Wales) Act 2024 (asc 3);

• “national policy statement” (“datganiad polisi cenedlaethol”) has the meaning given by section 5(2) of the Planning Act 2008 (c. 29);

• “owner-occupier (“perchen-feddiannydd”) has the meaning given by Part 2 of Schedule 19;

• “qualifying interest” (“buddiant cymhwysol”) has the meaning given by section 323(3);

• “resident owner-occupier” (“perchen-feddiannydd preswyl”) has the meaning given by paragraph 32 of Schedule 19;

• “special enactment” (“deddfiad arbennig”) means—

  (a)

  an Act of Senedd Cymru or of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, or

  (b)

  an instrument that has come into operation having been subject to special Senedd procedure or special parliamentary procedure,

  that specifically identifies land and authorises its compulsory acquisition;

• “the unaffected area” (“yr ardal nad effeithir arni”) has the meaning given by section 335(1)(b).

(2) Land that (apart from this subsection) would consist of separate hereditaments solely because it is divided by a boundary between the areas of two or more billing authorities is to be treated for the purposes of the definition of “hereditament” in subsection (1) as if it were not so divided.

Commencement Information

I1 S. 359 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 409(2)