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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/planning-and-compensation-act-1991-commencement-no-5-and-transitional-provisions-order-1991/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1991/2905",
  "legislation_title": "The Planning and Compensation Act 1991 (Commencement No. 5 and Transitional Provisions) Order 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/planning-and-compensation-act-1991-commencement-no-5-and-transitional-provisions-order-1991",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nArticle 3 of this Order brings into force on 2nd January 1992 the following provisions of the Planning and Compensation Act 1991—\nsection 1 (planning contravention notices);\nsection 3 (injunctions restraining breaches of planning control), so far as it is not yet in force;\nsection 4 (time limits on enforcement action), except so far as it relates to breach of condition notices;\nsections 5 and 6 (enforcement notices and appeals against such notices), so far as they are not yet in force;\nsection 7 (execution of works required by enforcement notice);\nsection 8 (offence where enforcement notice not complied with);\nsection 9 (stop notices);\nsection 11 (rights of entry for enforcement purposes);\nsection 14 (fish farming);\nsection 19 (receipt and determination of applications), so far as it is not yet in force, except to the extent it relates to paragraph 4(1) of Schedule 1 to the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 as it concerns applications for consent to the display of advertisements;\nsection 23 (trees), so far as it is not yet in force;\nsection 25 (listed buildings, conservation areas and hazardous substances), so far as it is not yet in force;\nsection 32 (planning: minor and consequential amendments), so far as it relates to the provisions of Schedule 7 to the 1991 Act listed in Schedule 1 to this Order, and to the extent specified in that Schedule; and\nsection 84(6) (repeals), so far as it relates to the repeals in Part I of Schedule 19 to the 1991 Act specified in Schedule 2 to this Order, except so far as the repeal of paragraph 4(1) of Schedule 1 to the 1990 Act relates to applications for consent to the display of advertisements.\nArticle 4 of this Order brings into force on 10th February 1992 the following provisions of the 1991 Act—\nsection 27 (streamlining of development plan system), so far as it is not yet in force;\nsection 32 (planning: minor and consequential amendments), so far as it relates to paragraph 9(2)(a) of Schedule 7;and\nsection 84(6) (repeals), so far as it relates to the repeals in Part I of Schedule 19 to the 1991 Act specified in Schedule 3 to this Order.\nArticle 5 makes transitional provisions.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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