The Town and Country Planning (Enforcement Notices and Appeals) (Wales) Regulations 2017

Interpretation

2.—(1) In these regulations—

“the Listed Buildings Act” (“y Ddeddf Adeiladau Rhestredig”) means the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990;

“the Planning Act” (“y Ddeddf Gynllunio”) means the Town and Country Planning Act 1990;

“electronic communication” (“cyfathrebiad electronig”) has the meaning given in section 15(1) of the Electronic Communications Act 2000(1);

“enforcement notice” (“hysbysiad gorfodi”) means a notice under—

(a)

section 172(1) of the Planning Act,

(b)

section 182(1) of the Planning Act,

(c)

section 207(1) of the Planning Act,

(d)

section 215(1) of the Planning Act,

(e)

section 38(1) of the Listed Buildings Act or under that section as applied by section 74(3) of that Act, or

(f)

section 46(1) of the Listed Buildings Act;

“local planning authority” (“awdurdod cynllunio lleol”) means the body which issued the relevant enforcement notice;

“working day” (“diwrnod gwaith”) means a day which is not a Saturday, Sunday, Bank Holiday or other public holiday in Wales.

(2) In relation to the use of electronic communications for any purpose of these Regulations which is capable of being effected electronically—

(a) the expression “address” (“cyfeiriad”) includes any number or address used for the purposes of electronic communications;

(b) references to notices or other documents, or to copies of such documents, include references to such documents or copies of them in electronic form.

(1)

2000 c. 7. Section 15(1) was amended by section 406(1) of, and paragraph 158 of Schedule 17 to, the Communications Act 2003 (c. 21).