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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-town-and-country-planning-electronic-communications-england-order-2003/article-6",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2003/011045202X",
  "legislation_title": "The Town and Country Planning (Electronic Communications) (England) Order 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-town-and-country-planning-electronic-communications-england-order-2003",
  "path": "article/6",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Insertion of definitions and interpretation provisions",
  "text": "(1) Section 336 of the 1990 Act (interpretation) is amended as follows.\n(2) In subsection (1), insert the following definitions at the appropriate places—\n“In this Order—\n“address”, in relation to electronic communications, means any number or address used for the purposes of such communications;”\n“In this Order—\n“electronic communication” has the same meaning as in the Electronic Communications Act 2000;”.\n(3) After subsection (4), insert—\n“(4A) Where—\n(a) an electronic communication is used for the purpose of serving or giving a notice or other document on or to any person for the purposes of this Act, and\n(b) the communication is received by that person outside that person’s business hours,\nit shall be taken to have been received on the next working day, and in this subsection, “working day” means a day which is not a Saturday, Sunday, Bank Holiday or other public holiday.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2003/011045202X/article/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:25:25.129945+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."
}