{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-act-1990/section-202C",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-act-1990/section-202C.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1990/8",
  "legislation_title": "Town and Country Planning Act 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-act-1990",
  "path": "section/202C",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "202C",
  "heading": "Tree preservation regulations: prohibited activities",
  "text": "(1) Tree preservation regulations may make provision for prohibiting all or any of the following—\n(a) cutting down of trees;\n(b) topping of trees;\n(c) lopping of trees;\n(d) uprooting of trees;\n(e) wilful damage of trees;\n(f) wilful destruction of trees.\n(2) A prohibition imposed on a person may (in particular) relate to things whose doing the person causes or permits (as well as to things the person does).\n(3) A prohibition may be imposed subject to exceptions.\n(4) In particular, provision may be made for a prohibition not to apply to things done with consent.\n(5) In this section “tree” means a tree in respect of which a tree preservation order is in force.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 202A-202G inserted (6.4.2012 for E.) by Planning Act 2008 (c. 29), ss. 192(7), 241(3)(4) (with s. 226) (as amended (1.6.2009) by S.I. 2009/1307, art. 5(1)(2), Sch. 1 para. 295); S.I. 2012/601, art. 2(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1990/8/section/202C",
    "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."
}