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The Planning (Wales) Act 2015 (Commencement No. 5 and Transitional Provisions) Order 2018

W.S.I. 2018/1022 · Made 19 September 2018

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Town And Country Planning, Wales

Made 19 September 2018

The Welsh Ministers make the following Order in exercise of the power conferred on them by section 58 of the Planning (Wales) Act 2015f1.

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Footnotes

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2015 anaw 4.

Contents

  1. 1Title
  2. 2Provisions coming into force on 22 October 2018
  3. 3Transitional provisions
  4. Signature
  5. Explanatory note

1Title

The title of this Order is the Planning (Wales) Act 2015 (Commencement No. 5 and Transitional Provisions) Order 2018.

2Provisions coming into force on 22 October 2018

The appointed day for the coming into force of the following provisions of the Planning (Wales) Act 2015 is 22 October 2018—

(a)

sections 52 and 53 (so far as those sections are not already in force); and

(b)

Schedule 6.

3Transitional provisions

(1)

Section 15C of the Commons Act 2006f1 (as amended by section 53 of, and Schedule 6 to, the Planning (Wales) Act 2015) does not apply to an application under section 15(1) of the Commons Act 2006f2 to register land in Wales as a town and village green, which is sent before the day appointed by article 2.

(2)

For the purposes of section 15C of the Commons Act 2006 (as amended by section 53 of, and Schedule 6 to, the Planning (Wales) Act 2015) it does not matter whether an event specified in the first column of Schedule 1B to the Commons Act 2006 occurred before, on or after the day appointed by article 2.

Signature

Lesley Griffiths

Cabinet Secretary for Energy, Planning and Rural Affairs, one of the Welsh Ministers

19 September 2018

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This is the fifth commencement order made by the Welsh Ministers under the Planning (Wales) Act 2015 (“the 2015 Act”).

Article 2 brings the following provisions of the 2015 Act into force, so far as they are not already in force—

  • section 52 (statement by owner to end use of land as of right);

  • section 53 (exclusion of right to apply for registration); and

  • Schedule 6 (town and village greens: new Schedule 1B to the Commons Act 2006).

Article 3 makes transitional provisions in relation to applications to register land as a town or village green under section 15(1) of the Commons Act 2006.