{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/planning-act-2008/section-61",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/planning-act-2008/section-61.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2008/29",
  "legislation_title": "Planning Act 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/planning-act-2008",
  "path": "section/61",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "61",
  "heading": "Initial choice of Panel or single appointed person",
  "text": "(1) Subsection (2) applies where the Secretary of State has accepted an application for an order granting development consent.\n(2) The Secretary of State must decide whether the application—\n(a) is to be handled by a Panel under Chapter 2, or\n(b) is to be handled by a single appointed person under Chapter 3.\n(3) The Secretary of State must publish the criteria that are to be applied in making decisions under subsection (2).",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 61(1) substituted (12.4.2015) by Infrastructure Act 2015 (c. 7), ss. 26, 57(5)(a); S.I. 2015/758, reg. 2 (with art. 4(2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 61(2)(3) substituted for s. 61(2)-(5) (1.4.2012) by Localism Act 2011 (c. 20), s. 240(2), Sch. 13 para. 18(3); S.I. 2012/628, art. 7(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 61 heading substituted (1.4.2012) by Localism Act 2011 (c. 20), s. 240(2), Sch. 13 para. 18(4); S.I. 2012/628, art. 7(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 61 in force at 1.3.2010 by S.I. 2010/101, art. 3(d) (with art. 6)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2008/29/section/61",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:11:38.131823+00:00",
    "licence": "OGL-UK-3.0",
    "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."
  }
}