{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/caravans-act-northern-ireland-1963/section-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/caravans-act-northern-ireland-1963/section-4.json",
  "legislation": "apni/1963/17",
  "legislation_title": "Caravans Act (Northern Ireland) 1963",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/caravans-act-northern-ireland-1963",
  "path": "section/4",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Duration of site licences.",
  "text": "(1) Where permission for the use of any land as a caravan site has been granted under the Planning Act in terms such that it will expire at the end of a specified period, any site licence issued in respect of the land by virtue of the existence of that permission shall expire, and shall be stated to expire, at the end of that period; but, subject thereto, a site licence shall not be issued for a limited period.\n(2) If, after a site licence is issued, the terms of the said permission are varied by the planning appeals commission on an appeal under section 58 of the Planning Act , the district council] who issued the licence shall make in the site licence any alteration required to secure that its terms comply with sub-section (1).",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "1991 NI 11"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 4(1) substituted (13.2.2015 for specified purposes, 1.4.2015 in so far as not already in operation) by Planning Act (Northern Ireland) 2011 (c. 25), s. 254(1)(2), Sch. 6 para. 2(a) (with s. 211); S.R. 2015/49, arts. 2, 3, Sch. 1 (with Sch. 2 (as amended (16.3.2016) by S.R. 2016/159, art. 2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 4(2) substituted (13.2.2015 for specified purposes, 1.4.2015 in so far as not already in operation) by Planning Act (Northern Ireland) 2011 (c. 25), s. 254(1)(2), Sch. 6 para. 2(b) (with s. 211); S.R. 2015/49, arts. 2, 3, Sch. 1 (with Sch. 2 (as amended (16.3.2016) by S.R. 2016/159, art. 2))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/apni/1963/17/section/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T21:32:55.975539+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}