{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/planning-wales-act-2015/section-40",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/planning-wales-act-2015/section-40.json",
  "legislation": "anaw/2015/4",
  "legislation_title": "Planning (Wales) Act 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/planning-wales-act-2015",
  "path": "section/40",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "40",
  "heading": "Joint planning boards to be hazardous substances authorities",
  "text": "In section 3 of the Planning (Hazardous Substances) Act 1990 (c. 10) (hazardous substances authorities other than county and county borough councils), after subsection (5B) insert—\n“(5C) A joint planning board constituted under section 2(1B) of the principal Act for a united district in Wales is the hazardous substances authority for land in the united district unless subsection (4) or (5) applies.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 40 partly in force; s. 40 in force for specified purposes at 6.9.2015, see s. 58(2)(b)(4)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 40 in force at 16.3.2016 in so far as not already in force by S.I. 2015/1987, art. 4(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/anaw/2015/4/section/40",
    "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."
}