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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-development-plan-england-regulations-1999/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1999/3280",
  "legislation_title": "The Town and Country Planning (Development Plan) (England) Regulations 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-development-plan-england-regulations-1999",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING, ENGLAND\nMade 8th December 1999\nLaid before Parliament 14th December 1999\nComing into force 4th January 2000\nThe Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, exercising the powers conferred on him by sections 12, 13, 26, 31, 33, 36, 37, 38, 40, 46, 53 and 336(1) of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 and, being a Minister designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 in relation to the prevention and limitation of the effects of accidents involving dangerous substances, exercising the powers conferred upon him by that section, and exercising all other relevant powers, hereby makes the following regulations–",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1990 c. 8. Sections 12, 26, 31 and 53 were amended by paragraphs 2, 15, 16 and 28 of Schedule 4 to the Planning and Compensation Act 1991 (c. 34). Section 13 was substituted by paragraph 4, sections 33, 36, 37(4), 38(5) and 40 by paragraph 17, and section 46 by paragraph 22 of Schedule 4 to the 1991 Act. See the definition of “prescribed” in section 336(1). The functions of the Secretary of State under the sections cited were, so far as exercisable in relation to Wales, transferred to the National Assembly for Wales by article 2 of and Schedule 1 to the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999, S.I. 1999/672."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1998/1750."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1972 c. 68."
    }
  ],
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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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