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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/neighbourhood-planning-general-regulations-2012/schedule-1/paragraph-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2012/637",
  "legislation_title": "The Neighbourhood Planning (General) Regulations 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/neighbourhood-planning-general-regulations-2012",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Neighbourhood development plans",
  "text": "For the purposes of regulations 14 and 16, a “consultation body” means—\n(a) where the local planning authority is a London borough council, the Mayor of London;\n(b) a local planning authority, county council or parish council any part of whose area is in or adjoins the area of the local planning authority;\n(c) the Coal Authority ;\n(d) the Homes and Communities Agency ;\n(e) Natural England ;\n(f) the Environment Agency ;\n(g) the Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission for England (known as English Heritage) ;\n(h) Network Rail Infrastructure Limited (company number 2904587);\n(i) a strategic highways company any part of whose area is in or adjoins the neighbourhood area;\n(ia) where the Secretary of State is the highway authority for any road in the area of a local planning authority any part of whose area is in or adjoins the neighbourhood area, the Secretary of State for Transport;\n(j) the Marine Management Organisation ;\n(k) any person—\n(i) to whom the electronic communications code applies by virtue of a direction given under section 106(3)(a) of the Communications Act 2003; and\n(ii) who owns or controls electronic communications apparatus situated in any part of the area of the local planning authority;\n(l) where it exercises functions in any part of the neighbourhood area—\n(i) an integrated care board established under Chapter A3 of Part 2 of the National Health Service Act 2006;\n(iia) NHS England;\n(ii) a person to whom a licence has been granted under section 6(1)(b) and (c) of the Electricity Act 1989 ;\n(iii) a person to whom a licence has been granted under section 7(2) of the Gas Act 1986 ;\n(iv) a sewerage undertaker; and\n(v) a water undertaker;\n(m) voluntary bodies some or all of whose activities benefit all or any part of the neighbourhood area;\n(n) bodies which represent the interests of different racial, ethnic or national groups in the neighbourhood area;\n(o) bodies which represent the interests of different religious groups in the neighbourhood area;\n(p) bodies which represent the interests of persons carrying on business in the neighbourhood area; and\n(q) bodies which represent the interests of disabled persons in the neighbourhood area.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 1(i)(ia) substituted for Sch. 1 para. 1(i) (1.4.2015) by The Infrastructure Act 2015 (Strategic Highways Companies) (Consequential, Transitional and Savings Provisions) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/377), reg. 1(2), Sch. para. 53(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 1(l)(i)(ia) substituted for Sch. 1 para. 1(l)(i) (1.4.2013) by The National Treatment Agency (Abolition) and the Health and Social Care Act 2012 (Consequential, Transitional and Saving Provisions) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/235), art. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 168"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Regulations substituted (1.7.2022) by The Health and Care Act 2022 (Consequential and Related Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/634), reg. 1(2), Sch. para. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Regulations substituted (6.11.2023) by The Health and Care Act 2022 (Further Consequential Amendments) (No. 2) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/1071), reg. 1(1), Sch. para. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "See section 1 of the Coal Industry Act 1994 (c.21)."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "See section 2 of the Housing and Regeneration Act 2008 (c.17)."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M3",
      "text": "See section 1 of the Natural Environment and Rural Communities Act 2006 (c.16)."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M4",
      "text": "See section 1(1) of the Environment Act 1995 (c.25)."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M5",
      "text": "See section 32 of the National Heritage Act 1983 (c.47)."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M6",
      "text": "See section 1 of the Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009 (c.23)."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M7",
      "text": "1989 c.29. Section 6 was substituted by section 30 of the Utilities Act 2000 (c.27)."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M8",
      "text": "1986 c.44. Section 7 was amended sections 3(2), 76(1) and (3) of, and paragraphs 1 and 4 of Schedule 6 to, the Utilities Act 2000."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/637/schedule/1/paragraph/1",
    "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."
}