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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/planning-and-infrastructure-act-2025/section-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/planning-and-infrastructure-act-2025/section-5.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2025/34",
  "legislation_title": "Planning and Infrastructure Act 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/planning-and-infrastructure-act-2025",
  "path": "section/5",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Applications for development consent: removal of certain pre-application requirements",
  "text": "Omit the following sections of the Planning Act 2008—\n(a) section 42 (duty to consult);\n(b) section 43 (local authorities for purposes of section 42(1)(b));\n(c) section 44 (categories for purposes of section 42(1)(d));\n(d) section 45 (timetable for consultation under section 42);\n(e) section 47 (duty to consult local community);\n(f) section 49 (duty to take account of responses to consultation and publicity).",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 5 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 118(1)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 5 in force at 24.7.2026 by S.I. 2026/641, reg. 3(b) (with reg. 6)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2025/34/section/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:45:36.899174+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}