{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/planning-hazardous-substances-regulations-2015/regulation-23",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/planning-hazardous-substances-regulations-2015/regulation-23.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2015/627",
  "legislation_title": "The Planning (Hazardous Substances) Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/planning-hazardous-substances-regulations-2015",
  "path": "regulation/23",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "23",
  "heading": "Application of the Act to hazardous substances authorities",
  "text": "(1) Any application by a hazardous substances authority for hazardous substances consent must be made to the Secretary of State.\n(2) Regulations 5 to 8, 10 and 11(2) apply to the making of such an application as they apply to applications made to a hazardous substances authority.\n(3) For the purpose of regulation 20, an application made to the Secretary of State by a hazardous substances authority is to be treated as an application made to the hazardous substances authority and referred to the Secretary of State under section 20.\n(4) Section 9 (other than subsection (2)(e)) applies in relation to an application made to the Secretary of State by a hazardous substances authority as it applies in relation to an application made to a hazardous substances authority.\n(5) For the purpose of section 22, a decision of the Secretary of State on an application made to him by a hazardous substances authority is to be treated as a decision under section 20.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/627/regulation/23",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:43:23.974380+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."
}