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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/m4-motorway-junctions-3-to-12-smart-motorway-development-consent-order-2016/schedule-11/paragraph-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2016/863",
  "legislation_title": "The M4 Motorway (Junctions 3 to 12) (Smart Motorway) Development Consent Order 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/m4-motorway-junctions-3-to-12-smart-motorway-development-consent-order-2016",
  "path": "schedule/11/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Applications made for certain approvals",
  "text": "(1) Where an application has been made to a discharging authority for any consent, agreement or approval required or contemplated by any of the provisions of this Order the discharging authority must give notice to the undertaker of their decision on the application before the end of the decision period.\n(2) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1), the decision period is—\n(a) where no further information is requested under paragraph 2, 5 weeks from the day immediately following that on which the application is received by the authority;\n(b) where further information is requested under paragraph 2, 5 weeks from the day immediately following that on which further information has been supplied by the undertaker under paragraph 2; or\n(c) such longer period as may be agreed by the undertaker and the discharging authority in writing before the end of the period in paragraph (a) or (b).",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 11 para. 1 in force at 23.9.2016, see art. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/863/schedule/11/paragraph/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:20:37.652692+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."
}