{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-noise-england-regulations-2006/regulation-21",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-noise-england-regulations-2006/regulation-21.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2006/2238",
  "legislation_title": "The Environmental Noise (England) Regulations 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-noise-england-regulations-2006",
  "path": "regulation/21",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "21",
  "heading": "Implementation of action plans",
  "text": "(1) Where an action plan or a revision of an action plan—\n(a) has been adopted pursuant to regulation 24; and\n(b) identifies a public authority as responsible for a particular action,\nthat public authority must treat the action plan as its policy insofar as it relates to that action.\n(2) A public authority may depart from any policy mentioned in paragraph (1) if—\n(a) it provides—\n(i) the Secretary of State, and\n(ii) the competent authority responsible for the preparation of the action plan or the revision (if not the Secretary of State),\nwith written reasons for departing from that policy; and\n(b) it publishes those reasons.\n(3) In this regulation “public authority” includes any person who exercises functions of a public nature, but does not include—\n(a) either House of Parliament or a person exercising functions in connection with proceedings in Parliament;\n(b) courts or tribunals; or\n(c) the Secretary of State.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2006/2238/regulation/21",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:23:06.793178+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."
}