{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-electronic-communications-wales-no-3-order-2004/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-electronic-communications-wales-no-3-order-2004/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2004/3172",
  "legislation_title": "The Town and Country Planning (Electronic Communications) (Wales) (No. 3) Order 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-electronic-communications-wales-no-3-order-2004",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nSection 8 of the Electronic Communications Act 2000 (“the 2000 Act”) empowers the appropriate Minister (as defined in section 9 of that Act), by Order, to modify any enactment or subordinate legislation for the purpose of authorising or facilitating the use of electronic communications.\nThe Lord Chancellor is the appropriate Minister in relation to matters under the Tribunals and Inquiries Act 1992 (c. 53).\nArticles 2 and 3 of this Order give effect to the Schedules to this Order, which modify procedural rules made by the Lord Chancellor in relation to planning appeals in Wales.\nSchedule 1 amends the Town and Country Planning (Inquiries Procedure) (Wales) Rules 2003 (S.I. 2003/1266), Schedule 2 amends the Town and Country Planning Appeals (Determination by Inspectors) (Inquiries Procedure) (Wales) Rules 2003 (S.I. 2003/1267), Schedule 3 amends the Town and Country Planning (Hearings Procedure) (Wales) Rules 2003 (S.I. 2003/1271), Schedule 4 amends the Town and Country Planning (Enforcement) (Inquiries Procedure) (Wales) Rules 2003 (S.I. 2003/1269), Schedule 5 amends the Town and Country Planning (Enforcement) (Determination by Inspectors) (Inquiries Procedure) (Wales) Rules 2003 (S.I. 2003/1270) and Schedule 6 amends the Town and Country Planning (Enforcement) (Hearings Procedure) (Wales) Rules 2003 (S.I. 2003/1268).\nSimilar amendments are being made by the National Assembly for Wales to the Town and Country Planning Act 1990, the Environment Act 1995, the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990, the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Regulations 1990, the Town and Country Planning (General Development Procedure) Order 1995, the Town and Country Planning (Applications) Regulations 1988, the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) Order 1995, the Town and Country Planning (Referrals and Appeals) (Written Representations Procedure) (Wales) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/390) (W.52), the Town and Country Planning (Enforcement Notices and Appeals) (Wales) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/394) (W.53) and the Town and Country Planning (Enforcement) (Written Representations Procedure) (Wales) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/395) (W.54).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2004/3172/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:14:23.564385+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."
}