{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/planning-wales-act-2015/schedule-4/paragraph-20",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/planning-wales-act-2015/schedule-4/paragraph-20.json",
  "legislation": "anaw/2015/4",
  "legislation_title": "Planning (Wales) Act 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/planning-wales-act-2015",
  "path": "schedule/4/paragraph/20",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "20",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Section 319B (determination of procedure for certain proceedings) is amended as follows.\n(2) After subsection (5) insert—\n“(5A) In a case where an application has been made to the Welsh Ministers under section ... 62M or 62O, they must also notify any representative persons they consider appropriate.”\n(3) In subsection (7), before paragraph (a) insert—\n“(za) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(zb) an application made to the Welsh Ministers under section 62M or 62O;”.\n(4) After subsection (8) insert—\n“(8A) For the purposes of this section as it applies where an application has been made to the Welsh Ministers under section ... 62M or 62O—\n“the local planning authority” means the local planning authority to which, but for the section in question, the application would have been made;\n“representative persons” are prescribed persons, or persons of a prescribed description, who appear to the Welsh Ministers to be representative of interested persons;\n“interested persons” are persons, other than the applicant and the local planning authority, who appear to the Welsh Ministers to have an interest in the proceedings.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in Sch. 4 para. 20(2) omitted (15.12.2025) by virtue of Infrastructure (Wales) Act 2024 (asc 3), s. 147(2), Sch. 3 para. 12(4)(i)(i) (with s. 84(5)); S.I. 2025/698, art. 3(l)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 4 para. 20(3) omitted (15.12.2025) by virtue of Infrastructure (Wales) Act 2024 (asc 3), s. 147(2), Sch. 3 para. 12(4)(i)(ii) (with s. 84(5)); S.I. 2025/698, art. 3(l)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in Sch. 4 para. 20(4) omitted (15.12.2025) by virtue of Infrastructure (Wales) Act 2024 (asc 3), s. 147(2), Sch. 3 para. 12(4)(i)(iii) (with s. 84(5)); S.I. 2025/698, art. 3(l)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 4 para. 20 partly in force; Sch. 4 para. 20 in force for specified purposes at 6.9.2015, see s. 58(2)(b)(4)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "Sch. 4 para. 20 in force at 1.3.2016 for specified purposes by S.I. 2016/52, art. 3(e)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "omitted",
      "affecting": "asc/2026/7",
      "affecting_title": "Planning (Consequential Provisions) (Wales) Act 2026"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/anaw/2015/4/schedule/4/paragraph/20",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:18:20.183571+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."
}