{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/infrastructure-wales-act-2024/section-27",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/infrastructure-wales-act-2024/section-27.json",
  "legislation": "asc/2024/3",
  "legislation_title": "Infrastructure (Wales) Act 2024",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/infrastructure-wales-act-2024",
  "path": "section/27",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "27",
  "heading": "Provision of pre-application services",
  "text": "(1) Regulations may make provision for or in connection with the provision of pre-application services by a planning authority, Natural Resources Wales or the Welsh Ministers, including provision about—\n(a) the circumstances in which pre-application services are required to be provided (including provision about the form and content of requests for pre-application services, and information that is to accompany a request);\n(b) the nature of the services required to be provided, and when and how they are to be provided;\n(c) the publication of a statement giving information about the range of pre-application services provided by a planning authority, Natural Resources Wales or the Welsh Ministers;\n(d) other steps required to be taken by any person in connection with, or for the purposes of, the provision of services under the regulations.\n(2) References in this Act to pre-application services are to services provided to a person for the purpose of assisting the person in applying for an infrastructure consent order.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 27 in force at 4.6.2024 for specified purposes, see s. 147(1)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 27 in force at 15.12.2025 in so far as not already in force 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/27",
    "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."
}