{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/planning-wales-act-2015/section-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/planning-wales-act-2015/section-12.json",
  "legislation": "anaw/2015/4",
  "legislation_title": "Planning (Wales) Act 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/planning-wales-act-2015",
  "path": "section/12",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Period for which local development plan has effect",
  "text": "(1) Section 62 of PCPA 2004 (local development plan) is amended as follows.\n(2) Before subsection (4) insert—\n“(3B) The plan must specify the period for which it is to have effect.”\n(3) In subsection (4), after “may” insert\n“—\n(a) make provision about the period that may be specified under subsection (3B);”.\n(b)\n(4) After subsection (8) insert—\n“(9) A plan ceases to be a local development plan on the expiry of the period specified under subsection (3B).”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 12 partly in force; s. 12 in force for specified purposes at 6.9.2015, see s. 58(2)(b)(4)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 12 in force at 4.1.2016 in so far as not already in force by S.I. 2015/1987, art. 3(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/anaw/2015/4/section/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:18:20.183571+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."
}