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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-act-1962/section-42",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/Eliz2/10-11/38",
  "legislation_title": "Town and Country Planning Act 1962",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-act-1962",
  "path": "section/42",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "42",
  "heading": "Application of planning control to local planning authorities",
  "text": "(1) In relation to land of local planning authorities, and to the development by local authorities of land in respect of which they are the local planning authorities, the provisions of this Part of this Act, other than sections fifteen and sixteen, subsections (2) and (3) of section seventeen, and sections twenty-five and twenty-six thereof, shall have effect subject to such exceptions and modifications as may be prescribed by regulations made under this Act.\n(2) Subject to the provisions of the last preceding section, any such regulations may in particular provide for securing—\n(a) that any application by such an authority for planning permission to develop such land, or for any other consent required in relation to such land under this Part of this Act, shall be made to the Minister and not to the local planning authority;\n(b) that any order or notice authorised to be made or served under this Part of this Act in relation to such land shall be made or served by the Minister and not by that authority.\n(3) Sections fifteen and sixteen and subsections (2) and (3) of section seventeen of this Act shall apply, with the necessary modifications, in relation to applications made to the Minister in pursuance of regulations made for the purposes of subsection (1) of this section, as they apply in relation to applications for planning permission which fall to be determined by the local planning authority.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/10-11/38/section/42",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:02:52.539255+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."
}