The Local Inquiries and Qualifying Procedures (Standard Daily Amount) (Wales) Regulations 2017

Title, commencement, application and interpretation

1.—(1) The title of these Regulations is the Local Inquiries and Qualifying Procedures (Standard Daily Amount) (Wales) Regulations 2017 and they come into force on 5 May 2017.

(2) These Regulations apply in relation to Wales.

(3) These Regulations apply in relation to—

(a) a local inquiry; and

(b) any person appointed by the Welsh Ministers to hold a qualifying procedure.

(4) In these Regulations—

“local inquiry” (“ymchwiliad lleol”) means an inquiry in relation to which the Welsh Ministers are entitled to recover their costs under or by virtue of section 250(4) of the Local Government Act 1972 (general provision as to costs of inquiries)(1) or section 69(5) of the Land Drainage Act 1991 (costs of an inquiry under that Act); and

“qualifying procedure” (“gweithdrefn gymwys”) means a qualifying procedure within the meaning of that term in section 303A(1A) of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990(2).

Standard daily amount for local inquiries and qualifying procedures

2.  The standard daily amount prescribed pursuant to section 42(4) of the Housing and Planning Act 1986 for a local inquiry and section 303A(5) of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 for a qualifying procedure—

(a) opening on or after the date on which these Regulations come into force and before 1 April 2018 is £508;

(b) opening on or after 1 April 2018 and before 1 April 2019 is £513; and

(c) opening on or after 1 April 2019 is £518.

Revocation and saving provisions

3.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2), the Regulations specified in the table in the Schedule are revoked in so far as they apply in relation to Wales.

(2) The Local Inquiries, Qualifying Inquiries and Qualifying Procedures (Standard Daily Amount) (Wales) Regulations 2011(3) continue to have effect in relation to a local inquiry or qualifying procedure to which those Regulations applied and which opened before, and remains ongoing after the date on which these Regulations come into force.

Lesley Griffiths

Cabinet Secretary for Environment and Rural Affairs, one of the Welsh Ministers

24 March 2017