{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/infrastructure-consent-fees-wales-regulations-2025/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/infrastructure-consent-fees-wales-regulations-2025/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2025/883",
  "legislation_title": "The Infrastructure Consent (Fees) (Wales) Regulations 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/infrastructure-consent-fees-wales-regulations-2025",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Fee for pre-application services provided by the Welsh Ministers",
  "text": "(1) Where the Welsh Ministers provide pre-application services, a fee must be paid to the Welsh Ministers.\n(2) Subject to paragraphs (8) and (9), the fee payable under this regulation is the amount published on a website maintained by or on behalf of the Welsh Ministers.\n(3) The Welsh Ministers must ensure that the following information is published on the website—\n(a) the pre-application services for which fees are charged,\n(b) the fees payable,\n(c) the method used to calculate fees, and\n(d) the enactment under which the relevant pre-application services are provided.\n(4) The Welsh Ministers must ensure that—\n(a) the fee payable is published on the website no less than one month before the fee comes into force, and\n(b) the fee payable does not exceed the costs reasonably incurred by them in providing the relevant pre-application services, taking one financial year with another.\n(5) Following a request for pre-application services, the Welsh Ministers must provide a notice to the applicant setting out the fee to be paid for providing those services.\n(6) The applicant must pay the fee to the Welsh Ministers within such period as may be specified in the notice, provided such period is not less than 21 days beginning the day after the date of that notice.\n(7) If the applicant fails to pay a fee payable to the Welsh Ministers within the period specified, the Welsh Ministers may—\n(a) recover any unpaid fees for any work completed as a civil debt, and\n(b) notwithstanding any requirement to provide the relevant pre-application services, withhold the relevant pre-application services until the fees are paid.\n(8) Where the cost of providing pre-application services is likely to exceed the fee payable under paragraph (2) of this regulation the Welsh Ministers must—\n(a) inform the applicant the cost is likely to exceed the fee,\n(b) indicate the amount by which the fee is likely to be exceeded, and\n(c) ask the applicant to respond within 14 days to confirm they accept that an additional fee is payable.\n(9) Where an additional fee is payable under paragraph (8) the fee will be administered by invoice payable by the applicant within 21 days beginning on the day after the date of the invoice.\n(10) Any fee paid under this regulation must be refunded if the request for pre-application services is rejected as invalid.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 3 in force at 15.12.2025, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2025/883/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:57:03.711753+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."
}