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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-act-1990/schedule-1/paragraph-20",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1990/8",
  "legislation_title": "Town and Country Planning Act 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-act-1990",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/20",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "20",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) The local planning authority whom the Secretary of State is required to consult under section 100(3), 104(3), 196A(3), 202(1) or 214B(6) or serve with a notice of his proposals under section 100(4) or 104(4) shall be the county planning authority or the district planning authority, as he thinks appropriate, and references in sections 100(2), (3) and (4) and 104(2), (3) and (4) and 202 to the local planning authority shall be construed accordingly.\n(2) In sections 96, 182 and 185 any reference to the local planning authority shall be construed as a reference to the county planning authority or the district planning authority, as the Secretary of State thinks appropriate.\n( 3 ) In relation to land in the area of a joint planning board, a person entering into a planning obligation under section 106 or 299A may identify the council of the county in which the land is situated as the authority by whom the obligation is enforceable.\n(4) In paragraph 16 of Schedule 13 the reference to the local planning authority shall be construed—\n(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(b) in relation to land . . . land in an area the local planning authority for which comprises both a county planning authority and a district planning authority, as a reference to the district planning authority.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 1 para. 20(1) substituted (2.1.1992) by Planning and Compensation Act 1991 (c. 34, SIF 123:1), s. 32, Sch. 7 para. 53(8)(with s. 84(5)); S.I. 1991/2905, art. 3, Sch. 1 (subject to art. 5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 20(3) substituted (25.10.1991) by Planning and Compensation Act 1991 (c. 34, SIF 123:1), s. 32, Sch. 7 para. 53(9)(with s. 84(5)); S.I. 1991/2272, art. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 20(4)(a) repealed (1.4.1997) by 1995 c. 25, s. 120(3), Sch. 24 (with ss. 7(6), 115, 117); S.I. 1996/2560, art. 2, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "By 1995 c. 25, s. 120(3), Sch. 24 (with ss. 7(6), 115, 117); S.I. 1996/2560, art. 2, Sch. it is provided (1.4.1997) that the word “other” in Sch. 1 para. 20(4)(b) shall be repealed"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 1 para. 20(4)(b) substituted (1.4.1997) by 1995 c. 25, s. 78, Sch. 10 para. 32(14)(d)(ii) (with ss. 7(6), 115, 117, Sch. 8 para. 7); S.I. 1996/2560, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2023/55",
      "affecting_title": "Levelling-up and Regeneration Act 2023"
    }
  ],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1990/8/schedule/1/paragraph/20",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-06T03:35:00.269643+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."
}