Title, commencement, application and interpretationI11
1
The title of this Order is the Development Procedure (Consultees) (Wales) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Order 2021.
2
This Order comes into force as follows—
F1a
this article and articles 2(1) and 3(1) come into force on 1 December 2021;
b
article 2(2)(b), (3)(a) and (c) and article 3(2)(b) come into force on 24 January 2022.
3
Where—
a
an application for planning permission is submitted before 25 April 2022; and
b
the applicant is required to have consulted a Fire and Rescue Authority pursuant to article 2D of the 2012 Order but has not done so;
the applicant is to be treated as if they have complied with the requirements of articles 2D and 2F of the 2012 Order in respect of the requirement to consult a relevant Fire and Rescue Authority.
4
Where an application for planning permission is made before 25 April 2022, article 14(1) of the 2012 Order does not apply so far as it requires a local planning authority to consult a Fire and Rescue Authority.
5
Article 3(2)(b) does not apply to—
a
proposed applications notified to the Welsh Ministers and local planning authorities in accordance with article 5 of the 2016 Order before 24 January 2022;
b
applications made to the Welsh Ministers under section 62D of the 1990 Act before 24 January 2022.
6
In this Order—
“The 1990 Act” (“Deddf 1990”) means the Town and Country Planning Act 19904;
“The 2012 Order” (“Gorchymyn 2012”) means the Town and Country Planning (Development Management Procedure) (Wales) Order 20125;
“The 2016 Order” (“Gorchymyn 2016”) means the Developments of National Significance (Procedure) (Wales) Order 20166.