{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/planning-northern-ireland-order-1972/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/planning-northern-ireland-order-1972/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/1972/1634",
  "legislation_title": "Planning (Northern Ireland) Order 1972",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/planning-northern-ireland-order-1972",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 1954 c.33 shall apply to Article 1 and to the following provisions of this Order as it applies to an Act of the Parliament of Northern Ireland.\n(2) Words and expressions used in this Order and in the Planning Act (Northern Ireland) 2011 have the same meaning in this Order as they have in that Act .\nPara. (3) rep. by SLR 1976",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "1991 NI 11"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in art. 2(2) substituted (13.2.2015 for specified purposes, 1.4.2015 in so far as not already in operation) by Planning Act (Northern Ireland) 2011 (c. 25), s. 254(1)(2), Sch. 6 para. 9(a) (with s. 211); S.R. 2015/49, arts. 2, 3, Sch. 1 (with Sch. 2) (as amended (16.3.2016) by S.R. 2016/159, art. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in art. 2(2) substituted (13.2.2015 for specified purposes, 1.4.2015 in so far as not already in operation) by Planning Act (Northern Ireland) 2011 (c. 25), s. 254(1)(2), Sch. 6 para. 9(b) (with s. 211); S.R. 2015/49, arts. 2, 3, Sch. 1 (with Sch. 2) (as amended (16.3.2016) by S.R. 2016/159, art. 2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1972/1634/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:54:38.234432+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."
}