# The Neighbourhood Planning (General) Regulations 2012, Regulation 17: Submission of plan proposal or modification proposal to examination

Extent: E+W

As soon as possible after the appointment of a person to carry out an examination under paragraph 7 of Schedule 4B to the 1990 Act (as applied by section 38A of the 2004 Act) or paragraph 9 of Schedule A2 to the 2004 Act, a local planning authority must send the following to the person appointed—
(a) the plan proposal or the modification proposal;
(b) the documents referred to in regulation 15(1) and any other document submitted to the local planning authority by the qualifying body in relation to the plan proposal or the modification proposal;
(c) if the order proposal is one to which the Conservation of Habitats and Species Regulations 2017 applies, the information submitted in accordance with regulation 106 of those Regulations; ...
(d) a copy of any representations which have been made in accordance with regulation 16; and
(e) in relation to a modification proposal—
(i) a copy of the neighbourhood development plan as proposed to be modified;
(ii) a statement setting out the whether or not the authority consider that the modifications contained in the modification proposal are so significant or substantial as to change the nature of the neighbourhood development plan which the modification proposal would modify, giving reasons for why the authority is of this opinion.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/637/regulation/17 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/neighbourhood-planning-general-regulations-2012/regulation-17
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