SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 13Infrastructure Planning Commission: transfer of functions to Secretary of State

PART 1Amendments of the Planning Act 2008

Single-Commissioner procedure to become single-appointed-person procedure

30(1)Amend section 78 (single Commissioner to handle application) as follows.

(2)In subsection (1)(a) (which refers to an application accepted by the Commission) for “Commission” substitute “Secretary of State”.

(3)In subsection (1)(b) (which refers to decision that application be handled by a single Commissioner) for “Commissioner” substitute “appointed person”.

(4)In subsection (2) (meaning of “the single Commissioner”) for “Commissioner” substitute “appointed person”.

(5)In the heading, and in the italic heading immediately preceding the section, for “Commissioner” substitute “appointed person”.

(6)In the heading of Chapter 3 of Part 6 for “single-Commissioner” substitute “single-appointed-person”.