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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/infrastructure-wales-act-2024/section-51",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/infrastructure-wales-act-2024/section-51.json",
  "legislation": "asc/2024/3",
  "legislation_title": "Infrastructure (Wales) Act 2024",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/infrastructure-wales-act-2024",
  "path": "section/51",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "51",
  "heading": "Legal assistance",
  "text": "(1) The examining authority or the Welsh Ministers may appoint a barrister or solicitor to provide legal advice and assistance to the examining authority in connection with its examination of an application under this Part.\n(2) The assistance that may be given by a person appointed under subsection (1) includes carrying out on behalf of the examining authority any oral questioning of a person making representations at a hearing or inquiry.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 51 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 147(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 51 in force at 15.12.2025 by S.I. 2025/698, art. 3(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asc/2024/3/section/51",
    "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."
}