Part 2: Legislative and executive competence: further provision Chapter 13: Planning for electricity generating stations Section 42: Overhead lines associated with devolved Welsh generating stations
This section allows Welsh Ministers or local planning authorities to authorise, under the Town and Country Planning Act 1990, overhead electricity lines (subject to a limit of 132kV nominal voltage), the purpose of which is to facilitate the connection to the electricity national grid of generating stations consented by Welsh Ministers.