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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-environmental-impact-assessment-regulations-2017/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2017/571",
  "legislation_title": "The Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-environmental-impact-assessment-regulations-2017",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Town And Country Planning\nMade 18th April 2017\nLaid before Parliament 19th April 2017\nComing into force 16th May 2017\nThe Secretary of State has been designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 in relation to measures relating to the environment.\nThe Secretary of State in exercise of the powers conferred by section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 and sections 71A(1) and (2) and 298A(2) of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 , and having taken into account the selection criteria in Annex III to Council Directive 2011/92/EU , makes the following Regulations:",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "S.I. 2008/301."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1972 c.68. Section 2(2) was amended by section 27(1)(a) of the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 (c.51) and Part 1 of the Schedule to, the European Union (Amendment) Act 2008 (c.7)."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M3",
      "text": "1990 c.8. Section 71A was inserted by section 15 of the 1991 Act, and was amended by paragraph 16 of Schedule 12 to the Housing and Planning Act 2016 (c. 22) and S.I. 2011/1043."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M4",
      "text": "OJ No. L 26, 28.1.2012, p.1."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Regulations applied (with modifications) by The Town and Country Planning (Permission in Principle) Order 2017 (S.I. 2017/402), art. 5B(2)-(4) (as inserted (1.6.2018) by S.I. 2017/1309, arts. 1, 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Regulations modified (11.2.2021) by High Speed Rail (West Midlands - Crewe) Act 2021 (c. 2), s. 55(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "Regulations power to amend or revoke conferred (26.12.2023) by Levelling-up and Regeneration Act 2023 (c. 55), ss. 164(3), 255(5), Sch. 14 Pt. 1 (with s. 247)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C4",
      "text": "Regulations power to modify (26.12.2023) by Levelling-up and Regeneration Act 2023 (c. 55), ss. 108(3), 255(3)(a) (with s. 247)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2017/571/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:11:15.146811+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."
}