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

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 2015[^f00001].

Title

1

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

Provisions coming into force on 22 October 2018

2

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.

Transitional provisions

3

• (1) Section 15C of the Commons Act 2006[^f00002] (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 2006[^f00003] 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.

Signed

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)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

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.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 2015 anaw 4.

[^f00002]: 2006 c. 26; section 15C was inserted by section 16(1) of the Growth and Infrastructure Act 2013 (c. 27) (“the 2013 Act”).

[^f00003]: Section 15 was amended by section 14 of the 2013 Act.