{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/planning-amendment-northern-ireland-order-1978/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/planning-amendment-northern-ireland-order-1978/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/1978/1048",
  "legislation_title": "Planning (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Order 1978",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/planning-amendment-northern-ireland-order-1978",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 1954 c.33 shall apply to the interpretation of Article 1 and the following provisions of this Order as it applies to the interpretation of a Measure of the Northern Ireland Assembly.\n(2) In this Order—\n“the Department” means the Department of the Environment;\n...\n(3) Any expression used in Part II and in the Planning Act (Northern Ireland) 2011 has the same meaning in that Part as in that Act.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in art. 2(2) omitted (1.4.2015) by virtue of Planning Act (Northern-Ireland) 2011 (c. 25), s. 254(1)(2), Sch. 6 para. 16 (with s. 211); S.R. 2015/49, art. 3, Sch. 1 (with Sch. 2) (as amended (16.3.2016) by S.R. 2016/159, art. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in art. 2(3) substituted (13.2.2015 for specified purposes, 1.4.2015 in so far as not already in operation) by Planning Act (Northern-Ireland) 2011 (c. 25), s. 254(1)(2), Sch. 6 para. 17(a) (with s. 211); S.R. 2015/49, arts. 2, 3, Sch. 1 (with Sch. 2 (as amended (16.3.2016) by S.R. 2016/159, art.2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in art. 2(3) substituted (13.2.2015 for specified purposes, 1.4.2015 in so far as not already in operation) by Planning Act (Northern-Ireland) 2011 (c. 25), s. 254(1)(2), Sch. 6 para. 17(b) (with s. 211); S.R. 2015/49, arts. 2, 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/nisi/1978/1048/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:53:03.355881+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."
}