{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/infrastructure-consent-compulsory-acquisition-wales-regulations-2025/regulation-20",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/infrastructure-consent-compulsory-acquisition-wales-regulations-2025/regulation-20.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2025/691",
  "legislation_title": "The Infrastructure Consent (Compulsory Acquisition) (Wales) Regulations 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/infrastructure-consent-compulsory-acquisition-wales-regulations-2025",
  "path": "regulation/20",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "20",
  "heading": "Publicising a varied application",
  "text": "(1) This regulation applies where the Welsh Ministers accept a request to vary an application under regulation 17.\n(2) The Welsh Ministers must make a copy of the application available for inspection by the public, at all reasonable hours, at a place in the locality of what will be the order land if the infrastructure consent is granted.\n(3) Where any development authorised by the infrastructure consent will take place in Wales, the Welsh Ministers must display a notice (“site notice”) in at least one place on or near what will be order land for not less than 28 days.\n(4) Where a development relates to a linear scheme exceeding 5km in length, a site notice must be displayed at intervals of no more than 5km from the start to the end of the proposed route unless it is impractical to do so.\n(5) Any site notice must include—\n(a) the name of the applicant,\n(b) a statement that the request to vary the application has been accepted by the Welsh Ministers,\n(c) the date the request was accepted,\n(d) the reference number allocated to the application by the Welsh Ministers,\n(e) the location of the proposed development,\n(f) a summary of the proposed development,\n(g) a description of the land to which the compulsory acquisition request relates,\n(h) a statement of the purpose of the compulsory acquisition,\n(i) a statement specifying if the application includes an environmental statement,\n(j) details of where and during which hours a copy of the application is available for inspection,\n(k) details of how the website required under regulation 25 (Publicity for valid applications: website) of the 2025 Application Regulations can be accessed,\n(l) details of how representations can be made, and\n(m) the date by which any representations are to be received which must be 28 days after the date the notice is first displayed.\n(6) Where a site notice is removed, obscured or defaced during the 28 day period, the Welsh Ministers will be treated as complying with paragraph (3) or (4), as appropriate, if they have taken reasonable steps to protect it and, if need be, replace it.\n(7) The Welsh Ministers must publish a notice of the application for one week in one newspaper that circulates in the locality of what will be order land if the infrastructure consent is granted.\n(8) Where any development authorised by the infrastructure consent will take place in the Welsh marine area, the Welsh Ministers must, as soon as reasonably practicable, also publish for 7 days a notice of the application in—\n(a) Lloyd’s List, and\n(b) one fishing journal, if one is in circulation.\n(9) The notice published in accordance with paragraphs (7) or (8) must include the information required by paragraph (5).",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 20(6) substituted (14.12.2025) by The Infrastructure Consent (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/1091), regs. 1(2), 3(9)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 20(8) inserted (14.12.2025) by The Infrastructure Consent (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/1091), regs. 1(2), 3(10)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 20 in force at 15.12.2025, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2025/691/regulation/20",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:57:32.514272+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."
}