{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/neighbourhood-planning-general-regulations-2012/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/neighbourhood-planning-general-regulations-2012/regulation-3.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/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations—\n“the 1990 Act” means the Town and Country Planning Act 1990;\n“the 2004 Act” means the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004;\n“address” in relation to electronic communications means any number or address used for the purposes of such communications;\n“approvals application” means an application for approval, in relation to a condition or limitation subject to which planning permission is granted by a neighbourhood development order, under section 61L(2) of the 1990 Act;\n“area application” means an application for the designation of a neighbourhood area made under section 61G of the 1990 Act;\n“consultation body” has the meaning given in Schedule 1;\n“contact details” means the name, address and telephone number of the person concerned;\n“EIA Regulations” means the Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations 2017;\n“electronic communication” has the meaning given in section 15(1) of the Electronic Communications Act 2000 ;\n“electronic communications apparatus” has the meaning given in paragraph 5 of the electronic communications code;\n“electronic communications code” has the meaning given in section 106(1) of the Communications Act 2003 ;\n“inspection” means inspection by the public;\n“modification proposal” means a proposal submitted by a qualifying body under paragraph 1 of Schedule A2 to the 2004 Act;\n“neighbourhood forum application” means an application for designation of a neighbourhood forum made by an organisation or body under section 61F of the 1990 Act;\n“order proposal” means a proposal for a neighbourhood development order submitted by a qualifying body under paragraph 1 of Schedule 4B to the 1990 Act or community right to build order submitted by a community organisation under paragraph 1 of Schedule 4B to the 1990 Act, as read with paragraph 2 of Schedule 4C to the 1990 Act; and\n“plan proposal” means a proposal for a neighbourhood development plan submitted by a qualifying body under paragraph 1 of Schedule 4B to the 1990 Act (as applied, with modifications, by section 38A of the 2004 Act).",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in reg. 3 substituted (16.5.2017) by The Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/571), regs. 1(1), 75(2) (with regs. 47, 70)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 3 substituted (28.12.2017) by The Communications Act 2003 and the Digital Economy Act 2017 (Consequential Amendments to Secondary Legislation) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/1011), reg. 1(1), Sch. 3 para. 7(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 3 inserted (31.1.2018) by The Neighbourhood Planning (General) and Development Management Procedure (Amendment) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/1243), regs. 1, 3 (with reg. 13)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "2000 c.7."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "2003 c.21."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M3",
      "text": "For the purposes of neighbourhood development orders, the definition of “qualifying body” is in section 61E(6) of the 1990 Act (inserted by paragraph 2 of the Localism Act 2011). A “community organisation” is to be regarded as a qualifying body (see paragraph 4(2) of Schedule 4C to the 1990 Act) (as inserted by Schedule 11 to the Localism Act 2011)."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M4",
      "text": "The definition of “community organisation” is in paragraph 3 of Schedule 4C to the 1990 Act."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M5",
      "text": "For the purposes of neighbourhood development plans the definition of “qualifying body” is in section 38A(12) of the 2004 Act (as inserted by paragraph 7 of the Localism Act 2011)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/637/regulation/3",
    "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."
}