# The Town and Country Planning (Development Plan) (England) Regulations 1999, Regulation 2: Interpretation


(1) In these Regulations–
“the 1990 Act” means the Town and Country Planning Act 1990;
“by advertisement” means by publication in the London Gazette and by local advertisement;
“by local advertisement” means by publication on at least one occasion in two successive weeks in a local newspaper circulating in the area of the local planning authority;
“national waste strategy” means any statement which contains the Secretary of State’s policies in relation to the recovery and disposal of waste in England, and which is made under section 44A of the Environmental Protection Act 1990, or, pending the publication of the first such statement, any relevant waste disposal plan prepared under section 50 of that Act;
“statutory plan” means a unitary development plan, structure plan, local plan, minerals local plan or waste local plan;
“statutory plan proposals” means proposals for a statutory plan or for the alteration or replacement of a statutory plan.
(2) In these Regulations–
(a) a reference to a section (other than to a section of a specific Act) is a reference to that section of the 1990 Act;
(b) a reference to a numbered form is a reference to the correspondingly numbered form in the Schedule to these Regulations;
(c) in relation to the making, alteration or replacement of a statutory plan by two or more local planning authorities jointly, a reference to a local planning authority shall be read as a reference to all of the local planning authorities making, altering or replacing the plan.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/3280/regulation/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-development-plan-england-regulations-1999/regulation-2
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