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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/planning-local-development-plan-regulations-northern-ireland-2015/regulation-12",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2015/62",
  "legislation_title": "The Planning (Local Development Plan) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/planning-local-development-plan-regulations-northern-ireland-2015",
  "path": "regulation/12",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Form and content of a development plan document",
  "text": "(1) A development plan document must contain—\n(a) a title which must give the name of the council district for which the development plan document is prepared and indicate whether it is a plan strategy or a local policies plan, and\n(b) a sub-title which must indicate the date of the adoption of the development plan document.\n(2) A development plan document must contain a reasoned justification of the policies contained in it.\n(3) Those parts of a development plan document which comprise the policies of the development plan document and those parts which comprise the reasoned justification required by paragraph (2) must be readily distinguishable.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2015/62/regulation/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:03:44.287191+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."
}