# The Infrastructure Consent (Fees) (Wales) Regulations 2025, Regulation 13: Fees payable to relevant statutory consultees and relevant planning authorities for providing services other than pre-application services

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(1) A relevant statutory consultee and a relevant planning authority may charge a fee for providing services to applicants in accordance with this regulation.
(2) A relevant statutory consultee and a relevant planning authority referred to in paragraph (1) must publish the following information on their website—
(a) the services in respect of which fees are charged,
(b) the fee charged for those services, and
(c) the method used to calculate fees.
(3) The relevant statutory consultee and relevant planning authority must—
(a) publish the fee payable on their website no less than one month before the fee comes into force;
(b) ensure the fee payable does not exceed the costs reasonably incurred by them in providing the relevant services taking one financial year with another.
(4) The relevant statutory consultee and relevant planning authority must provide a notice setting out the fee to be paid by the applicant when an application is made for a service published on their website.
(5) The applicant must pay the fees to the relevant statutory consultee or relevant planning authority (as appropriate) within such period as may be specified in the notice referred to in paragraph (4) provided such period is not less than 21 days beginning with the day after the date of that notice.
(6) If the applicant fails to pay the fees to the relevant statutory consultee or relevant planning authority (as appropriate) within the period specified, the relevant statutory consultee or relevant planning authority may—
(a) recover the fees for any completed work from the applicant as a civil debt, and
(b) notwithstanding any requirement to provide the relevant services, withhold the relevant services until the fees are paid.
(7) In this regulation—
“relevant planning authority” (“awdurdod cynllunio perthnasol”) means the planning authority for the area in which the proposed development is located;
“relevant statutory consultee” (“ymgynghorai statudol perthnasol”) means a consultee referred to in column 3 of the Table in the Schedule to the Infrastructure Consent (Pre-Application and Application Procedure and Transitional Provisions) (Wales) Regulations 2025 where the significant infrastructure project to which the application or proposed application relates falls within a category set out in column 2 of the Table;
“services” (“gwasanaethau”) means the performance of an infrastructure consent function or the provision of an infrastructure consent service within the meaning of section 124 of the 2024 Act.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2025/883/regulation/13 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/infrastructure-consent-fees-wales-regulations-2025/regulation-13
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