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.
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