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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/historic-environment-wales-act-2023/section-160",
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  "legislation": "asc/2023/3",
  "legislation_title": "Historic Environment (Wales) Act 2023",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/historic-environment-wales-act-2023",
  "path": "section/160",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "160",
  "heading": "Exercise of planning functions: general duty relating to conservation areas",
  "text": "(1) In exercising a planning function in relation to a building or other land in a conservation area, a person must have special regard to the desirability of preserving or enhancing the character or appearance of that area.\n(2) In this section “planning function” means any function under or by virtue of—\n(a) Part 3, this Part, Part 5 or Part 7 as it applies for the purposes of any of those Parts,\n(b) the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (c. 8), or\n(c) section 70 or 73 of the Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993 (c. 28) (estate management schemes).",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 160 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 212(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 160 in force at 4.11.2024 by S.I. 2024/860, art. 3(c)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "asc/2026/7",
      "affecting_title": "Planning (Consequential Provisions) (Wales) Act 2026"
    },
    {
      "type": "applied by 1992 c. 42, s. 17A(4) (as substituted)",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2025/34",
      "affecting_title": "Planning and Infrastructure Act 2025"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asc/2023/3/section/160",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:17:51.202412+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."
}