{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/infrastructure-wales-act-2024/section-118",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/infrastructure-wales-act-2024/section-118.json",
  "legislation": "asc/2024/3",
  "legislation_title": "Infrastructure (Wales) Act 2024",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/infrastructure-wales-act-2024",
  "path": "section/118",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "118",
  "heading": "Restrictions on power to issue temporary stop notice",
  "text": "(1) A temporary stop notice may not prohibit—\n(a) the use of a building as a dwelling, or\n(b) the carrying out of an activity of a kind, or in circumstances, specified in regulations.\n(2) A temporary stop notice may not prohibit the carrying out of an activity that has been carried out (whether or not continuously) for at least 4 years before the day on which a copy of the notice is first displayed in accordance with section 117.\n(3) Subsection (2) does not prevent a temporary stop notice prohibiting—\n(a) activity consisting of or incidental to building, engineering, mining, or other operations, or\n(b) the deposit of waste.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 118 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 147(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 118 in force at 15.12.2025 by S.I. 2025/698, art. 3(h)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asc/2024/3/section/118",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:17:47.929834+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."
}