An August 2026 correction notice has been issued for the Infrastructure (Wales) Act 2024 (Consequential, Transitional, Revocation and Saving Provisions) Regulations 2025, WSI 2025/1192 (W. 193). The notice says that, on page 28 of the Welsh-language version, regulation 19(2) should read ‘rheoliad 4’ rather than ‘rheoliad 14’. The parent Regulations were made on 11 November 2025, laid before Senedd Cymru on 17 November 2025, and came into force in stages on 14 and 15 December 2025. (legislation.gov.uk)
The correction sits within a broader recasting of infrastructure consenting in Wales. The explanatory note to WSI 2025/1192 says the Infrastructure (Wales) Act 2024 created a unified application and consenting process for major infrastructure projects, broadly covering energy, transport, waste and water, and that the 2025 Regulations make the consequential, transitional, revocation and saving changes needed around that new system. (legislation.gov.uk) The timing also aligns with the commencement programme. The Infrastructure (Wales) Act 2024 (Commencement No. 1) Order 2025 brought Parts 2 and 3 of the Act, and other substantive provisions, into force on 15 December 2025, matching the main start date used in WSI 2025/1192 for the bulk of its provisions. (legislation.gov.uk)
For practitioners, the structure of the instrument matters as much as the one-line correction. Regulations 2 to 19 make consequential amendments to existing secondary legislation; regulation 20 adds supplementary transitional provision; regulation 21 revokes the Developments of National Significance regime instruments; and regulation 22 preserves the old Town and Country Planning Act 1990 position for projects that remain within the section 146 transition. The effect is to move the live rulebook from the DNS model towards the new infrastructure consent model, while keeping older cases on their existing track where the Act says they should stay there. (legislation.gov.uk) The revocations are not minor housekeeping. Regulation 21 removes the principal DNS procedure, fees, enactments-application and amendment instruments from 2016, 2019 and 2024, but regulation 22 then confirms that those older instruments continue to apply where sections 19 and 20 of the 2024 Act do not apply because of section 146. (legislation.gov.uk)
The immediate drafting point concerns regulation 19 of WSI 2025/1192, which amends the Applications for Scheduled Monument Consent (Wales) Regulations 2024. In the English text, regulation 19(2) says that regulation 4 of the 2024 scheduled monument instrument, and its heading, are omitted. The Welsh text in the original 2025 instrument instead referred to regulation 14, and the August 2026 correction slip states that this should be read as regulation 4. (legislation.gov.uk) That correction is consistent with the structure of the 2024 scheduled monument rules. Their explanatory note says regulation 4 made consequential amendments to the Developments of National Significance (Wales) Regulations 2016, and the text of regulation 4 substitutes the new 2024 scheduled monument application reference into that DNS framework. Removing regulation 4 therefore fits the wider dismantling of the DNS secondary legislation in WSI 2025/1192. (legislation.gov.uk)
Who is affected is fairly clear. The change will matter most to local planning authorities, infrastructure promoters, planning solicitors, heritage advisers and translators working from the Welsh text where a project touches scheduled monument consent or the section 146 transition. For those users, the point is operational rather than political: regulation 19(2) must be read as removing regulation 4, not regulation 14, when advising on the continuing effect of the 2024 scheduled monument rules. (legislation.gov.uk) The underlying 2024 scheduled monument Regulations make further provision about the form and content of applications for scheduled monument consent in Wales. Because regulation 4 of that instrument was the bridge into the outgoing DNS framework, an incorrect Welsh cross-reference could create avoidable uncertainty in bilingual drafting and checking exercises even though the intended policy position is clear from the English text and the wider 2025 revocation scheme. (legislation.gov.uk)
This is therefore a narrow correction, not a fresh policy change. The correction notice sets out only one amendment to the Welsh-language text, and it does so by aligning the Welsh version of regulation 19(2) with the English text already published in the original instrument. Even so, the episode is a useful reminder that bilingual legislative precision matters most when Wales is transferring whole categories of infrastructure decision-making from one statutory route to another. (legislation.gov.uk) One further point from the explanatory note is that the Welsh Ministers considered it unnecessary to prepare a regulatory impact assessment for WSI 2025/1192. That fits the character of the Regulations: they are chiefly about consequential alignment, transition management, revocation of superseded DNS instruments and preservation of the old rules for cases protected by section 146. (legislation.gov.uk)