{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/planning-act-northern-ireland-2011/section-135",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/planning-act-northern-ireland-2011/section-135.json",
  "legislation": "nia/2011/25",
  "legislation_title": "Planning Act (Northern Ireland) 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/planning-act-northern-ireland-2011",
  "path": "section/135",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "135",
  "heading": "Temporary stop notice",
  "text": "(1) This section applies if a council thinks—\n(a) that there has been a breach of planning control in relation to any land in its district; and\n(b) that it is expedient that the activity (or any part of the activity) which amounts to the breach is stopped immediately.\n(2) The council may issue a temporary stop notice.\n(3) The notice must be in writing and must—\n(a) specify the activity which the council thinks amounts to the breach;\n(b) prohibit the carrying on of the activity (or of so much of the activity as is specified in the notice);\n(c) set out the council's reasons for issuing the notice.\n(4) A temporary stop notice may be served on any of the following—\n(a) a person who the council thinks is carrying on the activity;\n(b) a person who the council thinks is an occupier of the land;\n(c) a person who the council thinks has an estate in the land.\n(5) The council must display on the land—\n(a) a copy of the notice;\n(b) a statement of the effect of the notice and of section 137.\n(6) A temporary stop notice has effect from the time a copy of it is first displayed in pursuance of subsection (5).\n(7) A temporary stop notice ceases to have effect—\n(a) at the end of the period of 28 days starting on the day the copy notice is so displayed;\n(b) at the end of such shorter period starting on that day as is specified in the notice; or\n(c) if it is withdrawn by the council.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Pt. 5 applied with modification(s) (1.4.2015) by The Planning (Conservation Areas) (Demolition) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015 (S.R. 2015/107), regs. 1, 11"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Pt. 5 (except ss. 157-163) applied with modification(s) (1.4.2015) by The Planning General Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015 (S.R. 2015/39), regs. 1(1), 2 (with regs. 3-10)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "Ss. 105-155: transfer of functions (8.5.2016) by The Departments (Transfer of Functions) Order (Northern Ireland) 2016 (S.R. 2016/76), art. 1(2), Sch. 5 Pt. 2 (with art. 9(2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 135 in operation at 13.2.2015 for specified purposes by S.R. 2015/49, art. 2, Sch. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 135 in operation at 1.4.2015 in so far as not already in operation by S.R. 2015/49, art. 3, Sch. 1 (with Sch. 2) (as amended (16.3.2016) by S.R. 2016/159, art. 2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2011/25/section/135",
    "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."
}