Commentary on Sections Chapter 2 - Variation of Direction to Suspend the Right to Buy Section 16 – Decision of the Welsh Ministers on the application
45.Section 16 sets out when the Welsh Ministers may reject an application for a reducing variation and when they must grant the application. They can reject it if the authority has failed to provide information it was required to give. They must issue a direction if they agree with the authority’s view that the condition set out in section 14 exists, and must refuse to issue a direction if they do not agree.