Infrastructure (Wales) Act 2024

Appointing an examining authority

40 Appointing an examining authority

(1) The Welsh Ministers must appoint a person or a panel of persons to examine each valid application for infrastructure consent.

(2) The Welsh Ministers may appoint a person or a panel of persons to examine an application to revoke or change an infrastructure consent order.

(3) The Welsh Ministers must publish a document setting out the criteria to be applied in deciding whether to appoint a person or panel of persons under subsection (2).

(4) The Welsh Ministers may at any time in relation to an application—

(a) revoke an appointment of a person or a person on a panel under this section, or

(b) make an appointment of a person or person to a panel under this section.

(5) Regulations may make further provision for or in connection with the appointment of an examining authority under subsection (1) or (2).

(6) The regulations may include (among other things) provision for or in connection with—

(a) appointing members to a panel (including provision about changing membership of a panel and the consequences of any such changes);

(b) allocating functions to persons on a panel and decision-making by a panel;

(c) replacing a panel with a person or a new panel or replacing a person with a panel or a new person (and the consequences of such changes);

(d) conditions of appointment.

(7) In this Act, “examining authority” means a person or panel of persons appointed under this section.