{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/planning-hazardous-substances-act-1990/section-37",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/planning-hazardous-substances-act-1990/section-37.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1990/10",
  "legislation_title": "Planning (Hazardous Substances) Act 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/planning-hazardous-substances-act-1990",
  "path": "section/37",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "37",
  "heading": "Application of certain general provisions of principal Act.",
  "text": "(1) The provisions of the principal Act specified in subsection (2) shall apply for the purposes of this Act as they apply for the purposes of that Act.\n(2) Those provisions are—\nsections 319ZA to 319ZD (Wales: discharge of functions of local planning authority relating to applications)\nsection 320 (local inquiries)\nsection 322 (orders as to costs of parties where no inquiry held : England )\nsection 322A (orders as to costs: supplementary)\nsection 322C (costs: Wales)\n323 (procedure on certain appeals and applications : England )\nsection 323A (procedure for certain proceedings: Wales)\nsection 327ZA (powers as to form and content of applications in England);\nsection 329 (service of notices)\nsection 329A(1) and (2) (service of notices on the Crown)\nsection 330 (power to require information as to interests in land)\nsection 330A(1) to (4) (information as to interests in Crown land)\nsection 331 (offences by corporations).\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(5) In section 327ZA of the principal Act as applied by this section, references to a planning application are to be read as references to an application under, or for the purposes of, any provision of this Act or any subordinate provision made under this Act (but are not to be read as including an application made in legal proceedings).",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 37(2) inserted (6.9.2015 for specified purposes, 5.5.2017 in so far as not already in force) by Planning (Wales) Act 2015 (anaw 4), ss. 39(4), 58(2)(b)(4)(b); S.I. 2017/546, art. 3(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words omitted (temp.) by virtue of Planning (Consequential Provisions) Act 1990 (c. 11, SIF 123:1, 2), s. 6, Sch. 4 paras. 1, 14 (which temp. omission falls (2.1.1992) for specified purposes only by virtue of S.I. 1991/2698, arts. 3, 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in s. 37(2) inserted (6.9.2015 for specified purposes, 1.3.2016 in so far as not already in force) by Planning (Wales) Act 2015 (anaw 4), s. 58(2)(b)(4)(b), Sch. 5 para. 25(2)(a); S.I. 2016/52, art. 4(j) (with art. 17)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 37(2) inserted (2.1.1992 except for specified purposes) by Planning and Compensation Act 1991 (c. 34, SIF 123:1), ss. 30(2), 84(2) (with s. 84(5)); S.I. 1991/2728, arts. 3, 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in s. 37(2) inserted (6.9.2015 for specified purposes, 1.3.2016 in so far as not already in force) by Planning (Wales) Act 2015 (anaw 4), s. 58(2)(b)(4)(b), Sch. 5 para. 25(2)(b); S.I. 2016/52, art. 4(j) (with art. 17)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Word in s. 37(2) inserted (6.9.2015 for specified purposes, 5.5.2017 in so far as not already in force) by Planning (Wales) Act 2015 (anaw 4), s. 58(2)(b)(4)(b), Sch. 5 para. 25(2)(c); S.I. 2017/546, art. 3(e)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in s. 37(2) inserted (6.9.2015 for specified purposes, 5.5.2017 in so far as not already in force) by Planning (Wales) Act 2015 (anaw 4), s. 58(2)(b)(4)(b), Sch. 5 para. 25(2)(d); S.I. 2017/546, art. 3(e)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in s. 37(2) inserted (25.4.2024) by Levelling-up and Regeneration Act 2023 (c. 55), ss. 124(7)(a), 255(3)(b) (with s. 247); S.I. 2024/452, reg. 3(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Words in s. 37(2) inserted (7.6.2006) by Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 (c. 5), Sch. 3 para. 21(2) (with s. 111); S.I. 2006/1281, art. 2(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "Words in s. 37(2) inserted (7.6.2006) by Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 (c. 5), Sch. 3 para. 21(3) (with s. 111); S.I. 2006/1281, art. 2(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F11",
      "text": "S. 37(4) omitted (6.9.2015 for specified purposes, 5.5.2017 in so far as not already in force) by virtue of Planning (Wales) Act 2015 (anaw 4), s. 58(2)(b)(4)(b), Sch. 5 para. 25(3); S.I. 2017/546, art. 3(e)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F12",
      "text": "S. 37(5) inserted (25.4.2024) by Levelling-up and Regeneration Act 2023 (c. 55), ss. 124(7)(b), 255(3)(b) (with s. 247); S.I. 2024/452, reg. 3(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 37: transitory modification by 1990 c. 11, Sch. 4 para. 14 falls (6.4.2009) for further specified purposes by virtue of S.I. 2009/849, art. 2 (with art. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 37 wholly in force at 1.6.1992 see S.I. 1992/725, art. 3; s. 37 in force for certain purposes at 11.3.1992 see S.I. 1992/725, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2008/29",
      "affecting_title": "Planning Act 2008"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "asc/2026/7",
      "affecting_title": "Planning (Consequential Provisions) (Wales) Act 2026"
    },
    {
      "type": "words omitted",
      "affecting": "asc/2026/7",
      "affecting_title": "Planning (Consequential Provisions) (Wales) Act 2026"
    },
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "asc/2026/7",
      "affecting_title": "Planning (Consequential Provisions) (Wales) Act 2026"
    }
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1990/10/section/37",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:43:19.451060+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."
}