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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/planning-and-compulsory-purchase-act-2004-commencement-no6-transitional-provisions-and-savings-order-2005/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2005/2847",
  "legislation_title": "The Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 (Commencement No.6, Transitional Provisions and Savings) Order 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/planning-and-compulsory-purchase-act-2004-commencement-no6-transitional-provisions-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 15th October 2005, in relation to Wales, the following provisions of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 (“the Act”)–\nSection 38 (development plan);\nSection 39 (sustainable development));\nSection 113 (validity of strategies, plans and documents);\nSection 114 (examinations);\nSchedule 6, paragraphs 1, 8 to 13, 15, 17, 18, 19 (so far as it is not yet in force), 21, 22 and 25 (amendments of the planning Acts);\nSchedule 7, paragraphs 2, 3, 11(1) to (3), 16, 17, 19(2) (so far as it is not yet in force) and 23 (amendments of other enactments); and\nSchedule 9, so far as it gives effect to the repeals specified in Schedule 1 to this Order.\nThis Order is connected with the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 (Commencement No. 4 and Consequential and Transitional Provisions) (Wales) Order 2005 which brings the remaining provisions of Part 6 of the Act into force. Part 6 of the Act applies only in relation to Wales and establishes a system of local development plans in place of unitary development plans required under Chapter 1 of Part 2 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990.\nArticle 3 of this Order makes a transitional provision and the savings specified in Schedule 2 to this Order for the purposes of the transitional provisions contained in the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 (Commencement No.4 and Consequential and Transitional Provisions)(Wales) Order 2005 .",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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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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