# The Infrastructure Consent (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Wales) Regulations 2025, Regulation 8: Power to disapply requirements of the 2024 Act

Extent: E+W

(1) If development will, when completed, be partly in Wales or partly in the Welsh marine area, the Welsh Ministers may direct that the requirements imposed under Part 3 and Part 4 of the 2024 Act and any regulations made under those Parts do not apply.
(2) Where development is subject to a direction given under section 22 (directions specifying development as a significant infrastructure project) of the 2024 Act, the Welsh Ministers may direct that the requirements imposed by or under the following sections of the 2024 Act do not apply—
(a) section 29 (notice of proposed application);
(b) section 30 (pre-application consultation and publicity);
(c) section 32 (applying for infrastructure consent);
(d) section 33 (deciding on the validity of an application and notifying the applicant);
(e) section 35 (regulations about notices and publicity).
(3) For 18 months beginning with the day after these Regulations come into force, the Welsh Ministers may, in relation to any development, direct that the requirements imposed by or under the following sections of the 2024 Act do not apply—
(a) section 29 (notice of proposed application);
(b) section 30 (pre-application consultation and publicity);
(c) section 32 (applying for infrastructure consent);
(d) section 33 (deciding on the validity of an application and notifying the applicant);
(e) section 35 (regulations about notices and publicity).
(4) A direction given under this regulation may relate to—
(a) a particular application, or
(b) applications of a description specified in the direction.
(5) The Welsh Ministers must, as soon as reasonably practicable after giving a direction under paragraph (1), (2) or (3)—
(a) publish the direction, and
(b) lay a statement about the direction before Senedd Cymru explaining its effect and why it was made.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2025/887/regulation/8 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/infrastructure-consent-miscellaneous-provisions-wales-regulations-2025/regulation-8
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