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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-development-plan-regulations-1991/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1991/2794",
  "legislation_title": "The Town and Country Planning (Development Plan) Regulations 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-development-plan-regulations-1991",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "–\n(1) In these Regulations–\n“the 1990 Act” means the Town and Country Planning Act 1990;\n“the 1991 Act” means the Planning and Compensation Act 1991;\n“by advertisement” means by publication in the London Gazette and by local advertisement;\n“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;\n“statutory plan” means a unitary development plan, structure plan, local plan, minerals local plan or waste local plan.\n(2) In these Regulations–\n(a) a reference to the section of an Act is a reference to that section of the 1990 Act;\n(b) a reference to a numbered form is a reference to the correspondingly numbered form in the Schedule to these Regulations;\n(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.\n(3) Part 8 of these Regulations shall be interpreted in accordance with regulation 38.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1997/531",
      "affecting_title": "The Town and Country Planning (Development Plan) (Amendment) Regulations 1997"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1999/981",
      "affecting_title": "The Planning (Control of Major-Accident Hazards) Regulations 1999"
    },
    {
      "type": "added",
      "affecting": "uksi/1999/981",
      "affecting_title": "The Planning (Control of Major-Accident Hazards) Regulations 1999"
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/2794/regulation/2",
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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."
}