{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/planning-and-compensation-act-1991-commencement-no1-and-transitional-provisions-order-1991/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/planning-and-compensation-act-1991-commencement-no1-and-transitional-provisions-order-1991/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1991/2067",
  "legislation_title": "The Planning and Compensation Act 1991 (Commencement No.1 and Transitional Provisions) Order 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/planning-and-compensation-act-1991-commencement-no1-and-transitional-provisions-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 15;\nsection 17;\nsection 18;\nsection 21;\nsection 22;\nsection 25, in so far as it relates to paragraph 1 of Part I of Schedule 3;\nsection 26;\nsection 29;\nsection 31(1), (4) (so far as that subsection is not yet in force), (5) and (6);\nsection 32, in so far as it relates to paragraphs 8, 9(2)(c), 10(1), 36, 51, 54(1), (3)(a), 56 and 57(1), (2)(b), (3)(b) and (4) of Schedule 7;\nsections 62 to 69;\nsection 70, except in so far as it reltes to paragraph 32 of Schedule 15;\nsection 80 as it applies in relation to England and Wales, except in so far as it relates to the entries relating to the Planning (Hazardous Substances) Act 1990 in Part I of Schedule 18;\nsection 81; and\nsection 84(6), in so far as it relates to Part II of Schedule 19 (so far as it is not yet in force), Parts III and V of that Schedule and the repeals in Parts I and Iv of that Schedule specified in Schedule 1 to this Order.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1990 c. 10."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/2067/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."
}