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).