Statutory Instruments with Clear Reports

01 July 2019

SL(5)422 – The Town and Country Planning (Blight Provisions) (Wales) Order 2019

Procedure: Negative

This Order applies in relation to sections 149 to 171 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990. These sections allow the holders of certain interests in categories of land to require an appropriate authority to acquire their interest. One such interest is the interest of an owner-occupier of a hereditament (in this context, land which can be inherited), where the annual value of the hereditament does not exceed such amount as set by the Welsh Ministers. This Order increases the value limit from £34,800 to £36,000 in relation to Wales.

Parent Act: Town and Country Planning Act 1990

Date Made: 11 June 2019

Date Laid: 13 June 2019

Coming into force date: 05 July 2019

SL(5)423 – The Prescribed Objects for Intimate Piercing (Wales) Regulations 2019

Procedure: Affirmative

Part 5 of the Public Health (Wales) Act 2017 makes it an offence for a person in Wales to perform (or make arrangements to perform) an intimate piercing on a person under the age of 18. Currently, however, that prohibition only relates to intimate body piercings involving items of jewellery.

These Regulations prescribe “any object that is not jewellery” as an object for the purposes of paragraph (b) in the definition of “body piercing” in section 94(1) of the 2017 Act, but only insofar as that definition applies for the purposes of the offence in Part 5.

These Regulations will therefore bring within the scope of the offence in section 95 of the 2017 Act an intimate piercing involving any object that is not jewellery.

Parent Act: Public Health (Wales) Act 2017

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