The Environmental Assessments and Town and Country Planning (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020

Welsh Statutory Instruments

2020 No. 1324 (W. 292)

Exiting The European Union, Wales

Environmental Protection, Wales

Agriculture, Wales

Town And Country Planning, Wales

The Environmental Assessments and Town and Country Planning (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020

Sift requirements satisfied

16 November 2020

Made

19 November 2020

Laid before Senedd Cymru

23 November 2020

Coming into force in accordance with regulation 1(2)

The Welsh Ministers, in exercise of the powers conferred by paragraph 1(1) of Schedule 2 to the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018(1), make the following Regulations.

The requirements of paragraph 4(a) of Schedule 2 to the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 (relating to the requirement for consultation in certain circumstances) and of paragraph 4(2) of Schedule 7 to that Act (relating to the appropriate Senedd Cymru scrutiny procedure for these Regulations) have been satisfied.

Title and commencement

1.—(1) The title of these Regulations is the Environmental Assessments and Town and Country Planning (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020.

(2) These Regulations come into force immediately before IP completion day.

Amendment to the Environmental Assessment of Plans and Programmes and the Environmental Impact Assessment (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019

2.—(1) The Environmental Assessment of Plans and Programmes and the Environmental Impact Assessment (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019(2) are amended as follows.

(2) In regulation 5(11)(a)(ii), for “exit day” substitute “IP completion day”.

(3) In regulation 6(16)(a), for “exit day” substitute “IP completion day”.

Amendment to the Town and Country Planning (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019

3.—(1) The Town and Country Planning (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019(3) are amended as follows.

(2) In regulation 5(2)—

(a) in sub-paragraph (a), for “exit day” substitute “IP completion day”;

(b) in sub-paragraph (b), for “exit day”, in both places it occurs, substitute “IP completion day”.

(3) In regulation 6—

(a) in paragraph (1), for “exit day” substitute “IP completion day”;

(b) in paragraph (2), for “exit day”, in both places it occurs, substitute “IP completion day”.

Julie James

Minister for Housing and Local Government, one of the Welsh Ministers

19 November 2020

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations are made in exercise of the powers conferred by paragraph 1(1) of Schedule 2 to the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 (c. 16) in order to address failures of retained EU law to operate effectively and other deficiencies arising from the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union.

These Regulations make amendments to the Environmental Assessment of Plans and Programmes and the Environmental Impact Assessment (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 and to the Town and Country Planning (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) EU Exit) Regulations 2019. They amend references to exit day so as to refer instead to IP completion day.

An impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no, or no significant, impact on the private or voluntary sector is foreseen.

(1)

2018 c. 16. See section 20(1) of that Act for the definition of “devolved authority”.

(2)

S.I. 2019/245 (W. 60).

(3)

S.I. 2019/456 (W. 109).