{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/planning-consequential-provisions-wales-act-2026/schedule-5/paragraph-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/planning-consequential-provisions-wales-act-2026/schedule-5/paragraph-7.json",
  "legislation": "asc/2026/7",
  "legislation_title": "Planning (Consequential Provisions) (Wales) Act 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/planning-consequential-provisions-wales-act-2026",
  "path": "schedule/5/paragraph/7",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "References to statutory undertakers and statutory undertakings",
  "text": "(1) This paragraph applies to any reference to a statutory undertaker or a statutory undertaking in—\n(a) a provision of the principal Act, or\n(b) any other enactment in which “statutory undertaker” or “statutory undertaking” has the meaning given by section 303 of that Act.\n(2) A reference to a statutory undertaker is, in relation to any time before section 303 of the principal Act comes into force, to be read as referring to—\n(a) any person who was at that time a statutory undertaker within the meaning given by section 262(1) of TCPA 1990 (or by the corresponding provision of an earlier enactment that was in force at that time), and\n(b) any other person who was treated at that time as being a statutory undertaker for the purposes of—\n(i) a provision of a repealed enactment (or of an earlier enactment that was in force at that time) corresponding to the provision of the principal Act containing the reference, or\n(ii) the other enactment containing the reference.\n(3) A reference to a statutory undertaking is, in relation to any time before section 303 of the principal Act comes into force, to be read as referring to—\n(a) any undertaking that was at that time a statutory undertaking within the meaning given by section 262(2) of TCPA 1990 (or by the corresponding provision of an earlier enactment that was in force at that time), and\n(b) any other undertaking that was treated at that time as being a statutory undertaking for the purposes of—\n(i) a provision of a repealed enactment (or of an earlier enactment that was in force at that time) corresponding to the provision of the principal Act containing the reference, or\n(ii) the other enactment containing the reference.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 5 para. 7 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 5(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asc/2026/7/schedule/5/paragraph/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:17:35.773110+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."
}