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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/planning-wales-act-2015-commencement-no-3-and-transitional-provisions-order-2016/note",
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  "legislation": "wsi/2016/52",
  "legislation_title": "The Planning (Wales) Act 2015 (Commencement No. 3 and Transitional Provisions) Order 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/planning-wales-act-2015-commencement-no-3-and-transitional-provisions-order-2016",
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  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order is the third commencement order made by the Welsh Ministers under the Planning (Wales) Act 2015 (“the 2015 Act”).\nArticle 2 brings the following sections of the 2015 Act into force on 1 March 2016:\nsection 17 (requirement to carry out pre-application consultation);\nsection 18 (requirement to provide pre-application services);\nsection 19 (developments of national significance: applications for planning permission);\nsection 20 (developments of national significance: secondary consents);\nsection 21 (developments of national significance: local impact reports);\nsection 22 (timetable for determining applications); and\nsection 49 (costs on applications, appeals and references).\nArticle 3 brings the following provisions of the 2015 Act into force on 1 March 2016 so far as they relate to developments of national significance and secondary consents:\nsection 24 (further provision about applications made to the Welsh Ministers);\nsection 25 (power to make provision by development order in respect of applications to the Welsh Ministers);\nsection 26 (developments of national significance and applications made to Welsh Ministers: exercise of functions by appointed person);\nsection 27 (applications to Welsh Ministers: further amendments);\nsection 33 (decision notices);\nsection 34 (notification of development);\nsection 50 (procedure for certain proceedings);\nSchedule 3 (developments of national significance and applications made to Welsh Ministers: exercise of functions by appointed person); and\nSchedule 4 (applications to Welsh Ministers: further amendments).\nArticle 4 brings section 51 of the 2015 Act (costs and procedure on appeals etc: further amendments) into force on 1 March 2016 so far as it relates to those paragraphs of Schedule 5 (costs and procedure on appeals etc: further amendments) listed in that article.\nArticle 5 brings the following sections of the 2015 Act into force on 16 March 2016:\nsection 28 (power of local planning authority to require information with application);\nsection 29 (invalid applications: notice and appeal);\nsection 30 (revocation of saving of Town and Country Planning (Applications) Regulations 1988);\nsection 32 (power to decline to determine retrospective application);\nsection 33 (decision notices);\nsection 34 (notification of development);\nsection 35 (duration of planning permission: general);\nsection 36 (duration of outline planning permission);\nsection 37 (consultation etc in respect of certain applications relating to planning permission);\nsection 38 (stopping up or diversion of public paths where application for planning permission made);\nsection 43 (breach of planning control: enforcement warning notice);\nsection 44 (appeal against enforcement notice: deemed application for planning permission);\nsection 45 (restrictions on right to appeal against planning decisions); and\nsection 46 (restrictions on right to appeal against enforcement notice).\nArticles 6 to 17 contain transitional provisions.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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