{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-noise-wales-regulations-2006/regulation-22",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-noise-wales-regulations-2006/regulation-22.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2006/2629",
  "legislation_title": "The Environmental Noise (Wales) Regulations 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-noise-wales-regulations-2006",
  "path": "regulation/22",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "22",
  "heading": "Cooperation with external competent authorities",
  "text": "(1) When necessary in order to meet its obligations under these Regulations, a competent authority must use all reasonable endeavours to secure the cooperation of an external competent authority.\n(2) A competent authority—\n(a) when requested to do so by an external competent authority; and\n(b) if necessary to meet that external competent authority's obligations arising under relevant retained EU law,\nmust cooperate with that external competent authority.\n(3) In this Part “external competent authority” (“awdurdod cymwys allanol”) means a competent authority in Northern Ireland, Scotland or England designated for the purposes of the relevant retained EU law.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 22(2)(b) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Environmental Noise (Wales) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/247), regs. 1, 2(5)(a); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 22(3) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Environmental Noise (Wales) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/247), regs. 1, 2(5)(b); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2006/2629/regulation/22",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:03:02.067632+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}