{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/infrastructure-wales-act-2024/section-25",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/infrastructure-wales-act-2024/section-25.json",
  "legislation": "asc/2024/3",
  "legislation_title": "Infrastructure (Wales) Act 2024",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/infrastructure-wales-act-2024",
  "path": "section/25",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "25",
  "heading": "Directions under section 22 to 24: general provision",
  "text": "(1) This sections applies to directions under sections 22, 23 and 24.\n(2) A direction may be given subject to conditions.\n(3) A direction may specify the period for which it has effect.\n(4) The Welsh Ministers may give a direction following a qualifying request from a developer or where there is not a qualifying request from a developer.\n(5) The Welsh Ministers are not required to consider a request for a direction unless it is a qualifying request from a developer.\n(6) If the Welsh Ministers receive a qualifying request, they must give reasons for their decision to give or not to give the requested direction to the person who made the request.\n(7) In this section—\n“developer” (“datblygwr”) means—\n(a) a person who proposes to carry out any of the development to which the request relates;\n(b) a person who has applied, or proposes to apply, for a section 20 consent in relation to any of that development;\n(c) a person who, if a direction under section 22(1) is given in relation to that development, proposes to apply for infrastructure consent for any of that development;\n“qualifying request” (“archiad cymhwysol”) means a written request for a direction that specifies the development to which it relates.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 25 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 147(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 25 in force at 15.12.2025 by S.I. 2025/698, art. 3(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asc/2024/3/section/25",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:17:47.929834+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."
}