{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-and-planning-scotland-act-1982/section-46",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-and-planning-scotland-act-1982/section-46.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1982/43",
  "legislation_title": "Local Government and Planning (Scotland) Act 1982",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-and-planning-scotland-act-1982",
  "path": "section/46",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "46",
  "heading": "Power of planning authorities to vary planning permission.",
  "text": "After section 31 of the 1972 Act there shall be inserted the following section—\n“ Power of planning authorities to vary planning permission.\n31A Notwithstanding any other provision of this Part of this Act, a planning authority may, at the request of the grantee or of a person acting with his consent, vary any planning permission granted by them, if it appears to them that the variation sought is not material.”.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "The text of s. 5(1), 6, 7, 9(2), 10–13, 20, 21, 22(a)–(c) 23, 31, 36–50, 56–59, 60(1)(a)(b)(2), 66, Sch. 1 Pt. II, Sch. 2 is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/43/section/46",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:10:56.660748+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."
}