{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/growth-and-infrastructure-act-2013-commencement-no-1-and-transitional-and-saving-provisions-order-2013/article-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2013/1124",
  "legislation_title": "The Growth and Infrastructure Act 2013 (Commencement No. 1 and Transitional and Saving Provisions) Order 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/growth-and-infrastructure-act-2013-commencement-no-1-and-transitional-and-saving-provisions-order-2013",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) This Order may be cited as the Growth and Infrastructure (Commencement No.1 and Transitional and Saving Provisions) Order 2013.\n(2) In this Order—\n“the 1945 Act” means the Statutory Orders (Special Procedure) Act 1945;\n“the 2008 Act” means the Planning Act 2008;\n“the Act” means the Growth and Infrastructure Act 2013”;\n“development consent” means an order granting development consent under section 37 of the Planning Act 2008; and\n“Examining authority” has the same meaning as set out in section 86 to the 2008 Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1945 c.18."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "2008 c.29."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Section 37 was amended by sections 128 and 137(5) of, and paragraph 5 of Schedule 13 to, the Localism Act 2011 (c. 20)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "Section 86 was amended by section 128 of, and paragraphs 1 and 37 of Schedule 13 to, the Localism Act 2011 (c.20)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/1124/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:55:00.319329+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."
}