{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/planning-northern-ireland-order-1991/article-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/planning-northern-ireland-order-1991/article-7.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/1991/1220",
  "legislation_title": "The Planning (Northern Ireland) Order 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/planning-northern-ireland-order-1991",
  "path": "article/7",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Independent examination",
  "text": "(1) The Department may cause an independent examination to be carried out by the planning appeals commission for the purpose of considering objections to a development plan or to the alteration, repeal or replacement of a development plan.\n(2) Any person who makes objections to a development plan or to the alteration, repeal or replacement of a development plan shall, if he so requests, be given the opportunity to appear before and be heard by the planning appeals commission.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Art. 7 substituted (17.10.2006) by Planning Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/1252 (N.I. 7)), arts. 1(3)(a), 5(1); S.R. 2006/381, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1991/1220/article/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:45:50.727380+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."
}