{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/net-zero-teesside-order-2024/article-44",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/net-zero-teesside-order-2024/article-44.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2024/174",
  "legislation_title": "The Net Zero Teesside Order 2024",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/net-zero-teesside-order-2024",
  "path": "article/44",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "44",
  "heading": "Procedure in relation to certain approvals",
  "text": "(1) Where an application is made to, or a request is made of, a consenting authority for any consent, agreement or approval required or contemplated by any of the provisions of the Order (not including the Requirements), such consent, agreement or approval to be validly given, must be given in writing.\n(2) Where paragraph (1) applies to any consent, agreement or approval, such consent, agreement or approval must not be unreasonably withheld or delayed.\n(3) Schedule 13 (procedure for discharge of Requirements) has effect in relation to all consents, agreements or approvals required, granted, refused or withheld in relation to the Requirements.\n(4) Save for applications made pursuant to Schedule 13 (procedure for discharge of Requirements) or where stated to the contrary if, within six weeks (or such longer period as may be agreed between the undertaker and the relevant consenting authority in writing) after the application or request has been submitted to a consenting authority it has not notified the undertaker of its disapproval and the grounds of disapproval, it is deemed to have approved the application or request.\n(5) Where any application is made as described in paragraph (1), the undertaker must include a statement in such application that refers to the timeframe for consideration of the application and the consequences of failure to meet that timeframe as prescribed by paragraph (4).",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 44 in force at 11.3.2024, see art. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2024/174/article/44",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:34:40.750770+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."
}