Regulation 18 Fee for examining an application to change or revoke an infrastructure consent orderF1
Where a person or panel of persons is appointed under section 40(2) of the 2024 Act to examine an application to change or revoke an infrastructure consent order (“examining authority”), an applicant must pay a fee to the Welsh Ministers.
The fee under paragraph (1) must be paid to the Welsh Ministers on receipt of notice under regulation 28(1)(a) of the 2026 Regulations of the first appointment of an examining authority.
The fee payable under this regulation is the amount published on a website maintained by or on behalf of the Welsh Ministers.
The Welsh Ministers must ensure that the following information is published on the website—
details of the functions for which the fee is charged,
the fee payable,
the method used to calculate the fee, and
the enactment under which the relevant functions are provided.
The Welsh Ministers must—
publish the fee on the website no less than one month before the fee comes into force;
ensure the fee payable does not exceed the costs reasonably incurred by them in performing the relevant functions, taking one financial year with another.
In this regulation “examining authority” has the meaning given in paragraph (1).
Annotations
Textual amendments
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Pt. 6 inserted (16.3.2026) by The Infrastructure Consent (Fees) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2026 (W.S.I. 2026/70), regs. 1(2), 2(3)