The Infrastructure (Wales) Act 2024 (Commencement No. 1) Order 2025

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

Section 147 of the Infrastructure (Wales) Act 2024 (“the Act”) brought the following provisions of that Act into force on 4June 2024, which was the day after the Act received Royal Assent—

(a) Part 1,

(b) the provisions of Parts 2 to 8 that—

(i) confer power to make regulations, or

(ii) make provision about what is (or is not) permitted to be done in the exercise of a power to make regulations,

(c) Part 9, except section 145.

This Order brings into force the remaining provisions of the Act for all purposes on 15 December 2025, except—

(a) section 40(2) (appointing an examining authority to examine an application to revoke or change an infrastructure consent order),

(b) section 90 (power to change or revoke infrastructure consent orders),

(c) section 91 (procedure: changing and revoking infrastructure consent orders),

(d) section 92 (changing and revoking infrastructure consent orders: formalities), other than as provided in article 4.

(e) section 93 (changing or revoking an infrastructure consent order: compensation for changing or revoking an infrastructure consent order),

(f) section 96(5) (legal challenges),

(g) section 96(6) and (8) (legal challenges), other than as provided in article 4,

(h) section 124(3)(a)(ii) (advice, information or other assistance provided in connection with an application to make a change to or to revoke an infrastructure consent order), and

(i) Schedule 2.