{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/planning-development-management-regulations-northern-ireland-2015/regulation-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/planning-development-management-regulations-northern-ireland-2015/regulation-1.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2015/71",
  "legislation_title": "The Planning (Development Management) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/planning-development-management-regulations-northern-ireland-2015",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Planning (Development Management) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015 and come into operation on 1st April 2015.\n(2) In these Regulations a reference to a section is a reference to a section of the Planning Act (Northern Ireland) 2011.\n(3) In these Regulations—\n“the GDPO” means the Planning (General Development Procedure) Order (Northern Ireland) 2015 ;\n“appointed officer” means a person appointed by the council for the purposes of section 31(1)(a);\n“appropriate council” means the council for the district in which the land to which the application relates is situated;\n“council” means a district council;\n“EIA development” has the same meaning as in regulation 2 of the Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2017 .",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in reg. 1(3) substituted (1.8.2025) by The Planning (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2025 (S.R. 2025/128), regs. 1, 3(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "SR 2015 No.72."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "SR 2017 No.83 [Editorial note: Reg. 1(3) footnote substituted (1.8.2025) by The Planning (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2025 (S.R. 2025/128), regs. 1, 3(2)]"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2015/71/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:03:37.277710+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."
}