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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-development-plan-regulations-1991/regulation-23",
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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/23",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "23",
  "heading": "Direction not to adopt proposals",
  "text": "If, before the local planning authority have adopted proposals for a statutory plan or for the alteration or replacement of such a plan, the Secretary of State directs them not to adopt the proposals until he has decided whether to give them a direction under section 18(1), 35A(1) or 44(1), as the case may be, they shall not adopt the proposals until he has notified them of his decision.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/2794/regulation/23",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:32:45.641144+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."
}