{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-environmental-impact-assessment-regulations-2017/regulation-34",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-environmental-impact-assessment-regulations-2017/regulation-34.json",
  "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": "regulation/34",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "34",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Part—\n“enforcement functions” means—\n(a)the issuing of an enforcement notice under section 172 of the Act (Issue of enforcement notice);\n(b)making an application for a planning enforcement order under section 171BA of the Act (Time limits in cases involving concealment);\n(c)the issuing of a planning contravention notice under section 171C of the Act (Power to require information about activities on land);\n(d)the issuing of a temporary stop notice under section 171E of the Act (Temporary stop notice);\n(e)the issuing of a stop notice under section 183 of the Act (Stop notices);\n(f)the service of a breach of condition notice under section 187A of the Act (Enforcement of conditions); or\n(g)an application to the court for an injunction under section 187B of the Act (Injunctions restraining breaches of planning control); and\n“ground (a) appeal” has the meaning given in regulation 40; and\n“unauthorised EIA development” means EIA development which is the subject of an enforcement notice under section 172 of the Act.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "Section 172 was substituted by section 5 of the Planning and Compensation Act 1991 (c.34)."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "Section 171BA was inserted by section 124 of the Localism Act 2011 (c.20)."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M3",
      "text": "Section 171C was inserted by section 1 of the Planning and Compensation Act 1991, and amended by S.I. 2003/956."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M4",
      "text": "Section 171E was inserted by section 52 of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 (c.5)."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M5",
      "text": "Section 183 was amended by section 9 of the Planning and Compensation Act 1991."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M6",
      "text": "Section 187A was inserted by section 2 of the Planning and Compensation Act 1991, and amended by section 126 of the Localism Act 2011."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M7",
      "text": "Section 187B was inserted by section 3 of the Planning and Compensation Act 1991."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2017/571/regulation/34",
    "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."
}