{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-act-1985/section-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-act-1985/section-3.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1985/51",
  "legislation_title": "Local Government Act 1985",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-act-1985",
  "path": "section/3",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Local planning authorities.",
  "text": "(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n3), (4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(5) In paragraph 55(1) of Schedule 16 to the Local Government Act 1972 after the words “Elsewhere than in Greater London” there shall be inserted the words “, a metropolitan county”.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 3(1) repealed by Planning (Consequential Provisions) Act 1990 (c.11, SIF 123:1, 2), s. 3, Sch. 1 Pt. I, Sch. 3 paras. 1, 2, 4, 6"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 3(2) repealed by Housing and Planning Act 1986 (c.63, SIF 81:1), ss. 24(3), 39(4), 49(2), 53(2), Sch. 12 Pt. III"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 3(3)(4) repealed by Planning (Consequential Provisions) Act 1990 (c.11, SIF 123:1, 2), s. 3, Sch. 1 Pt. I, Sch. 3 paras. 1, 2, 4, 6"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words substituted by Planning (Consequential Provisions) Act 1990 (c.11, SIF 123:1, 2), s. 4, Sch. 2 para. 69(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1985/51/section/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:00:02.601228+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."
}