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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/planning-act-northern-ireland-2011/schedule-3/paragraph-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/planning-act-northern-ireland-2011/schedule-3/paragraph-2.json",
  "legislation": "nia/2011/25",
  "legislation_title": "Planning Act (Northern Ireland) 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/planning-act-northern-ireland-2011",
  "path": "schedule/3/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
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  "text": "(1) For the purposes of this Schedule—\n“first review date”, in relation to a mining site, shall, subject to paragraphs 4 and 6, be ascertained in accordance with paragraph 3;\n“mineral permission” means any planning permission for minerals development;\n“mining site” means—\n(a)in a case where it appears to the council to be expedient to treat as a single site the aggregate of the land to which any two or more mineral permissions relate, the aggregate of the land to which those permissions relate; and\n(b)in any other case, the land to which a mineral permission relates.\n(2) In determining whether it appears to it to be expedient to treat as a single site the aggregate of the land to which two or more mineral permissions relate a council must have regard to any guidance issued for the purpose by the Department.\n(3) Any reference (however expressed) in this Schedule to a mining site being a site to which relates a mineral permission, is a reference to the mining site, or some part of it, being the land to which the permission relates.\n(4) For the purposes of this Schedule, an application made under paragraph 7 is finally determined when—\n(a) the proceedings on the application have been determined, and\n(b) any time for appealing under paragraph 9(1), or applying or further applying under paragraph 7, (where there is a right to do so) has expired.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2011/25/schedule/3/paragraph/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:20:42.089798+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."
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