Welsh Statutory Instruments
TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING, WALES
Made
21 March 2006
Coming into force
22 March 2006
The National Assembly for Wales, in exercise of the powers conferred upon it by sections 121(5) and 122(3)(b) of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004(1), hereby makes the following Order:
1.—(1) The title of this Order is the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 (Commencement No.4 and Consequential, Transitional and Savings Provisions) (Wales) (Amendment) Order 2006.
(2) This Order comes into force on 22 March 2006 and applies in relation to Wales.
2.—(1) The Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 (Commencement No.4 and Consequential, Transitional and Savings Provisions) (Wales) Order 2005(2)is amended as follows.
(2) In paragraph (2) of article 5 (transitional provisions) of the Order, before the words “paragraph (1)” insert the words “Article 4 and” and for the word “does” substitute the word “do”.
Signed on behalf of the National Assembly for Wales under section 66(1) of the Government of Wales Act 1998(3) 21 March 2006
D. Elis-Thomas
Presiding Officer of the National Assembly for Wales
(This note is not part of the Order)
Part 6 of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 (“the Act”) applies in relation to Wales and establishes a system of local development plans (LDPs) in place of the unitary development plans required under Chapter 1 of Part II of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (“the 1990 Act”).
Part 6 of the Act has been brought into force by the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 (Commencement No. 3 and Consequential and Transitional Provisions) (Wales) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/1229 (W.87) (C.56)) (“the No. 3 Order”) and the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 (Commencement No.4 and Consequential, Transitional and Savings Provisions) (Wales) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/2722 (W.193) (C.110)) (“the No. 4 Order”). These two Orders contain transitional arrangements to enable certain local planning authorities to prepare unitary development plans under the 1990 Act, rather than moving immediately to the system of LDPs introduced by the Act.
The effect of this Order is to clarify, for the avoidance of doubt, that those transitional arrangements continue to apply to the local planning authorities listed in the Schedule to the No. 4 Order.