{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/planning-and-compensation-act-1991-commencement-no-2-and-transitional-provisions-scotland-order-1991/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/planning-and-compensation-act-1991-commencement-no-2-and-transitional-provisions-scotland-order-1991/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1991/2092",
  "legislation_title": "The Planning and Compensation Act 1991 (Commencement No. 2 and Transitional Provisions) (Scotland) Order 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/planning-and-compensation-act-1991-commencement-no-2-and-transitional-provisions-scotland-order-1991",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Commencement",
  "text": "Subject to article 4, the following provisions of the 1991 Act shall come into force on 25th September 1991:–\nsection 47;\nsection 48;\nsection 50;\nsection 57 in so far as it relates to the provisions of Schedule 10 referred to below;\nsection 60(1), (4), (6), (7) and (8);\nsection 61 in so far as it relates to the provisions of Schedule 13 referred to below;\nsections 71 to 76;\nsection 77;\nsection 78;\nsection 79;\nsection 80 in so far as it relates to the provisions of Schedule 18 referred to below;\nsection 84(6) in so far as it relates to the repeals in Part IV of Schedule 19 specified in Schedule 1 to this Order;\nSchedule 10 in so far as it relates to paragraphs 1 and 2;\nSchedule 12;\nSchedule 13 in so far as it relates to paragraphs 2, 5, 6, 7(a)(ii) and (iii) and (b), 9, 11(a) and (c), 12, 14, 28, 36, 38(e), 41(1), 43(a)(i) and (b)(i);\nSchedule 16;\nSchedule 17;\nSchedule 18 as it applies in relation to Scotland except in so far as it relates to the entries in respect of section 56J(8) and 56K(12) of the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1972() in Part I;\nSchedule 19 in so far as it relates to the repeals in Part IV specified in Schedule 1 to this Order.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1972 c. 52."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/2092/article/3",
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  },
  "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."
}