Part 6Deciding applications for orders granting development consent
Chapter 2The Panel procedure
Panels
70Membership of Panel where application relates to land in Wales
(1)
This section applies where the application relates to land in Wales (even if it also relates to land not in Wales).
(2)
A person exercising power under section 65(1)(a) or 68(2) must do so with a view to securing that, if reasonably practicable, at least one of the members of the Panel is—
(a)
a Commissioner who was nominated for appointment as a Commissioner by the Welsh Ministers, or
(b)
a Commissioner who is within subsection (3).
(3)
A Commissioner is within this subsection if, when appointed to be a member of the Panel, the Commissioner is one notified to the Commission by the Welsh Ministers as being a Commissioner who should be treated for the purposes of this section as being a Commissioner within subsection (2)(a).