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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/planning-and-compulsory-purchase-act-2004-commencement-no5-and-savings-order-2005/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2005/2081",
  "legislation_title": "The Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 (Commencement No.5 and Savings) Order 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/planning-and-compulsory-purchase-act-2004-commencement-no5-and-savings-order-2005",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nArticle 2 of this Order brings into force on 24th August 2005, in relation to England, the following provisions of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 (“the Act”)—\nSection 43 (power to decline to determine applications) to the extent to which it relates to the power to decline to determine subsequent applications but not to the extent to which it relates to the power to decline to determine overlapping applications);\nSection 44 (major infrastructure projects);\nSection 51 (duration of permission and consent);\nSection 54 (duty to respond to consultation); and\nParagraph 16 (4) of Schedule 6 which substitutes paragraph 7 of Schedule 1 to the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (consultation requirements).\nArticle 3 of this Order brings into force section 116 (Isles of Scilly) of the Act.\nArticle 4 of this Order makes savings for the purposes of the provisions contained in sections 44, 51 and 54 of, and paragraph 16(4) of Schedule 6 to, the Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/2081/note",
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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."
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