{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/neighbourhood-planning-general-regulations-2012/regulation-18A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/neighbourhood-planning-general-regulations-2012/regulation-18A.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2012/637",
  "legislation_title": "The Neighbourhood Planning (General) Regulations 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/neighbourhood-planning-general-regulations-2012",
  "path": "regulation/18A",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "18A",
  "heading": "Prescribed date for making a neighbourhood development plan",
  "text": "(1) The date prescribed for the purposes of section 38A(4)(b) of the 2004 Act is the date which is the last day of the period of 8 weeks beginning with the day immediately following that on which the last applicable referendum is held.\n(2) Paragraph (1) does not apply where proceedings for questioning anything relating to an applicable referendum are brought in accordance with section 61N(3) of the 1990 Act (applied by section 38C(2)(d) of the 2004 Act) before the neighbourhood development plan is made.\n(3) The date prescribed for the purposes of paragraph 14(7) of Schedule A2 to the 2004 Act is—\n(b) the last day of the period of 5 weeks beginning with the day immediately following that on which the examiner’s report was received by the local authority in accordance with paragraph 13 of Schedule A2 to the 2004 Act; or\n(c) such later date as may be agreed in writing by the local planning authority and the qualifying body.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 18A inserted (1.10.2016) by The Neighbourhood Planning (General) and Development Management Procedure (Amendment) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/873), regs. 1(1), 2(7) (with reg. 4(4))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. 18A(3) added (31.1.2018) by The Neighbourhood Planning (General) and Development Management Procedure (Amendment) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/1243), regs. 1, 10 (with reg. 13)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/637/regulation/18A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:38:49.246512+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."
}