[F162GDevelopments of national significance: supplementary provision about secondary consentsE+W
(1)The Welsh Ministers may give directions requiring the relevant person to do things in relation to a secondary consent in respect of which, by virtue of section 62F(2), a decision is to be made by the Welsh Ministers.
(2)The relevant person is the person by whom (but for section 62F) the decision as to whether to grant the secondary consent would have been made.
(3)The power to give directions under this section includes power to vary or revoke the directions.
(4)Regulations made by the Welsh Ministers may make provision for regulating the manner in which a secondary consent, or an application for secondary consent, is to be dealt with by the Welsh Ministers under section 62F.
(5)That provision may include provision—
(a)about consultation to be carried out by the Welsh Ministers before a secondary consent is granted or refused;
(b)requiring a person to provide a substantive response to any consultation carried out by virtue of the regulations (including about the requirements of a substantive response and the period within which it is to be provided).
(6)Regulations made by the Welsh Ministers may provide for an applicable enactment or requirement—
(a)to apply, with or without modifications, in respect of a secondary consent within subsection (1), or an application for such a consent, or
(b)not to apply in respect of such a consent or application.
(7)For this purpose an applicable enactment or requirement, in relation to a secondary consent within subsection (1), or an application for such a consent, is—
(a)any provision of or made under this Act, or of or made under any other enactment, in respect of consents of that kind;
(b)any requirements imposed by or under this Act, or any other enactment, in respect of consents of that kind.]
Textual Amendments
F1Ss. 62F-62H inserted (6.9.2015 for specified purposes, 1.3.2016 in so far as not already in force) by Planning (Wales) Act 2015 (anaw 4), ss. 20, 58(2)(b)(4)(b); S.I. 2016/52, art. 2(a)