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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-control-of-advertisements-england-amendment-regulations-2021/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2021/617",
  "legislation_title": "The Town and Country Planning (Control of Advertisements) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2021",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-control-of-advertisements-england-amendment-regulations-2021",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend the Town and Country Planning (Control of Advertisements) (England) Regulations 2007 (“the principal Regulations”) (S.I. 2007/783).\nRegulation 3 inserts a new Part 4A into the principal Regulations.\nThe inserted regulation 21A grants permission for a flagstaff to display two flags simultaneously, of which both may be from Class H in Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations or of which one may be from Class H in Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations and the other from Class 7 in Schedule 3 to those Regulations.\nThe inserted regulation 21B provides that where a flag from Schedule 1 is displayed in conjunction with a flag from Schedule 3, the flag from Schedule 1 must be flown in a superior position to that from Schedule 3. The regulation also provides that where one of the flags flown is the Union flag, that flag must be flown in a superior position to the other flag and that not more than one flag from Schedule 3 may be displayed.\nRegulation 4 provides for the omission of the flag of the European Union from the list of flags mentioned in Class H in Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations.\nRegulation 5 amends the list of flags set out in each of paragraphs 7A(1), 7AA(1) and 7AB(1) in Class 7 of Schedule 3 to the principal Regulations to provide for the inclusion of a flag bearing the device of the NHS.\nRegulation 6 makes consequential amendments to regulation 1(3), regulation 6(1), Class H in Schedule 1 and Class 7 in Schedule 3 to the principal Regulations.\nAn impact assessment has not been prepared for this instrument as no impact on the costs of business or the voluntary sector is foreseen.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2021/617/note",
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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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