{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/historic-environment-wales-act-2023/section-96",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/historic-environment-wales-act-2023/section-96.json",
  "legislation": "asc/2023/3",
  "legislation_title": "Historic Environment (Wales) Act 2023",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/historic-environment-wales-act-2023",
  "path": "section/96",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "96",
  "heading": "Grant or refusal of consent",
  "text": "(1) On determining an application for listed building consent, a planning authority or the Welsh Ministers may grant or refuse consent.\n(2) In considering whether to grant listed building consent, a planning authority or the Welsh Ministers must have special regard to the desirability of preserving—\n(a) the listed building to which the application relates,\n(b) the setting of the building, and\n(c) any features of special architectural or historic interest the building possesses.\n(3) Listed building consent has effect for the benefit of the listed building and the land on which it is situated, and of all persons for the time being interested in the building and land; but this is subject to the terms of the consent.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 96 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 212(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 96 in force at 4.11.2024 by S.I. 2024/860, art. 3(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "applied by 1992 c. 42, s. 17A(3) (as substituted)",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2025/34",
      "affecting_title": "Planning and Infrastructure Act 2025"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asc/2023/3/section/96",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:17:51.202412+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."
}