The Infrastructure (Wales) Act 2024 (Commencement No. 1) Order 2025

Made: 16 June 2025

The Welsh Ministers make the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred on them by section 147(2) of the Infrastructure (Wales) Act 2024[^f00001].

Title

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The title of this Order is the Infrastructure (Wales) Act 2024 (Commencement No. 1) Order 2025.

Interpretation

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In this Order—

• “the Act” (“y Ddeddf”) means the Infrastructure (Wales) Act 2024;

• “infrastructure consent” (“cydsyniad seilwaith”) means the consent required by section 19 of the Act.

Provisions coming into force on 15 December 2025

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The following provisions of the Act come into force on 15 December 2025 in so far as they are not already in force—

• (a) Parts 2 and 3;

• (b) Part 4 except section 40(2) (appointing an examining authority to examine an application to revoke or change an infrastructure consent order),

• (c) Part 5,

• (d) Sections 63 to 89,

• (e) Section 92(1)(a) and (b) and (2),

• (f) sections 94 and 95,

• (g) section 96(1) to (4) and (7),

• (h) sections 97 to 102, Part 7,

• (i) Part 8 except section 124(3)(a)(ii) (advice, information or other assistance provided in connection with an application or proposed application to make a change to or to revoke an infrastructure consent order),

• (j) section 145,

• (k) Schedule 1, and

• (l) Schedule 3.

Provisions coming into force on 15 December 2025 to the extent specified

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The following provisions of the Act come into force on 15 December 2025 to the extent specified in relation to each such provision—

• (a) section 92(3) in relation to an order made by virtue of section 87(4) (correcting errors in an infrastructure consent order which is a statutory instrument), and

• (b) section 96(6) and (8) (legal challenges) in relation to an application for infrastructure consent.

Signed

Rebecca Evans — Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Energy and Planning, one of the Welsh Ministers — 16 June 2025

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

Section 147 of the Infrastructure (Wales) Act 2024 (“the Act”) brought the following provisions of that Act into force on 4June 2024, which was the day after the Act received Royal Assent—

• (a) Part 1,

• (b) the provisions of Parts 2 to 8 that—

• (i) confer power to make regulations, or

• (ii) make provision about what is (or is not) permitted to be done in the exercise of a power to make regulations,

• (c) Part 9, except section 145.

This Order brings into force the remaining provisions of the Act for all purposes on 15 December 2025, except—

• (a) section 40(2) (appointing an examining authority to examine an application to revoke or change an infrastructure consent order),

• (b) section 90 (power to change or revoke infrastructure consent orders),

• (c) section 91 (procedure: changing and revoking infrastructure consent orders),

• (d) section 92 (changing and revoking infrastructure consent orders: formalities), other than as provided in article 4.

• (e) section 93 (changing or revoking an infrastructure consent order: compensation for changing or revoking an infrastructure consent order),

• (f) section 96(5) (legal challenges),

• (g) section 96(6) and (8) (legal challenges), other than as provided in article 4,

• (h) section 124(3)(a)(ii) (advice, information or other assistance provided in connection with an application to make a change to or to revoke an infrastructure consent order), and

• (i) Schedule 2.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 2024 asc 3.