{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/planning-wales-act-2026/section-172",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/planning-wales-act-2026/section-172.json",
  "legislation": "asc/2026/6",
  "legislation_title": "Planning (Wales) Act 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/planning-wales-act-2026",
  "path": "section/172",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "172",
  "heading": "Charging for development",
  "text": "(1) CIL regulations must provide that a charging authority may charge CIL in respect of chargeable development in its area.\n(2) In this Chapter “chargeable development” means—\n(a) anything done for the purpose of creating a new building,\n(b) anything done to or in respect of an existing building, or\n(c) any change in the use of an existing building or part of a building.\n(3) CIL regulations may provide for—\n(a) works or changes in use of a kind specified in the regulations not to be treated as chargeable development;\n(b) the creation of, or anything done to or in respect of, a structure of a kind specified in the regulations to be treated as chargeable development.\n(4) A planning authority is the charging authority for its area.\n(5) CIL regulations may provide for a county council or county borough council to be the charging authority for any part of its area for which a National Park Authority or a joint planning board is the planning authority.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 172 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 409(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asc/2026/6/section/172",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:17:37.107863+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."
}