119.Section 43 provides the Welsh Ministers with a power to make regulations to require an examining authority to cause an open-floor hearing to be held in connection with the examination of an application under Part 4. And the regulations may make the requirement to hold an open-floor hearing subject to conditions. In this section an “open-floor hearing” is where each interested party is entitled to make oral representations about the application, subject to the examining authority’s powers of control over the conduct of the hearing.
Commentary on Sections Examining applications Section 43 – Open-floor hearings