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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-compensation-act-1985-repealed-2751997/section-3",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1985/19",
  "legislation_title": "Town and Country Planning (Compensation) Act 1985 (repealed 27.5.1997)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-compensation-act-1985-repealed-2751997",
  "path": "section/3",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Short title and commencement.",
  "text": "(1) This Act may be cited as the Town and Country Planning (Compensation) Act 1985.\n(2) Section 2(1) above has effect in relation to the refusal or conditional grant of planning permission on any application made on or after the day on which this Act is passed; but where the period mentioned in the subsections inserted by those provisions begins before that day it shall not expire until the end of the period of twelve months beginning with that day.\n(3) Section 2(2) above has effect in relation to the refusal or conditional grant of planning permission on any application made after 23rd January 1985.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words substituted by Planning (Consequential Provisions) Act 1990 (c. 11, SIF 123:1, 2), s. 4, Sch. 2 para. 68(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words substituted by Planning (Consequential Provisions) Act 1990 (c. 11, SIF 123:1, 2), s. 4, Sch. 2 para. 68(b)"
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1985/19/section/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:00:28.470253+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."
}