{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/planning-act-2008/section-86",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/planning-act-2008/section-86.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2008/29",
  "legislation_title": "Planning Act 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/planning-act-2008",
  "path": "section/86",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "86",
  "heading": "Chapter applies to examination by Panel or single appointed person",
  "text": "(1) This Chapter applies—\n(a) in relation to the examination of an application by a Panel under Chapter 2, and\n(b) in relation to the examination of an application by a single appointed person under Chapter 3.\n(2) In this Chapter as it applies in relation to the examination of an application by a Panel under Chapter 2, “the Examining authority” means the Panel.\n(3) In this Chapter as it applies in relation to the examination of an application by a single appointed person under Chapter 3, “the Examining authority” means the single appointed person.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 86 substituted (1.4.2012) by Localism Act 2011 (c. 20), s. 240(2), Sch. 13 para. 37; S.I. 2012/628, art. 7(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 86 heading substituted (1.4.2012) by Localism Act 2011 (c. 20), s. 240(2), Sch. 13 para. 37; S.I. 2012/628, art. 7(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 86 in force at 1.3.2010 by S.I. 2010/101, art. 3(d) (with art. 6)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2008/29/section/86",
    "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."
  }
}