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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/requirement-to-assist-with-certain-plan-making-prescribed-public-bodies-england-regulations-2026/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2026/188",
  "legislation_title": "The Requirement to Assist with Certain Plan Making (Prescribed Public Bodies) (England) Regulations 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/requirement-to-assist-with-certain-plan-making-prescribed-public-bodies-england-regulations-2026",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nSection 39A of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 (c. 5) (“the Act”), as inserted by section 100 of the Levelling-up and Regeneration Act 2023 (c. 55), established a power for a plan-making authority to notify a prescribed public body in writing that the authority requires the body to assist the authority in relation to the preparation or revision of a relevant plan under section 39A(5) of the Act by the authority. Where this power is exercised, the prescribed public body must do everything that the plan-making authority reasonably requires of the body to assist the authority in relation to the preparation or revision of the relevant plan.\nThese Regulations prescribe the persons and bodies who are a “prescribed public body” for the purposes of section 39A of the Act and therefore can be subject to a notification under section 39A(1) requiring assistance in relation to the preparation of a relevant plan.\nA Regulatory Impact Assessment under the Better Regulation Framework has not been produced for this instrument. The Regulatory Impact Assessment for the Levelling-up and Regeneration Act 2023 provides analysis of the primary legislative measures from which the measures set out in this instrument derive. Copies can be obtained at https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbill/58-03/0169/LevellingUpandRegenerationBillImpactAssessment.pdf or from the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government at 2 Marsham Street, London, SW1P 4DF. The Annexes to that document can be obtained at https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbill/58-03/0169/LevellingUpandRegenerationBillImpactAssessmentAnnexes.pdf or from the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government at 2 Marsham Street, London, SW1P 4DF.",
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  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2026/188/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:05:29.729352+00:00"
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  "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."
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