{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-general-development-procedure-amendment-wales-order-2008/introduction",
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  "legislation": "wsi/2008/2336",
  "legislation_title": "The Town and Country Planning (General Development Procedure) (Amendment) (Wales) Order 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-general-development-procedure-amendment-wales-order-2008",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING, WALES\nMade 31 August 2008\nLaid before the National Assembly for Wales 2 September 2008\nComing into force 6 October 2008\nThe Welsh Ministers, in exercise of the powers conferred upon the Secretary of State by sections 59, 61(1), 62(1) and 333(7) of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 and which are now exercisable by the Welsh Ministers, make the following Order:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1990 c. 8."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "The functions of the Secretary of State under sections 59, 61(1), 62(1) and 333(7) of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 were, so far as exercisable in relation to Wales, transferred to the National Assembly for Wales by article 2 of and Schedule 1 to the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/672): see the entry in Schedule 1 for the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (c. 8) as substituted by article 4 of, and Schedule 3 to, the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 2000 (S.I. 2000/253). The functions have subsequently been transferred to the Welsh Ministers by section 162 of, and paragraph 30 of Schedule 11 to, the Government of Wales Act 2006. By virtue of section 333(4) of the 1990 Act, the powers conferred by sections 59, 61(1), 62(1) and 333(7) of the 1990 Act are exercisable by statutory instrument."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2008/2336/introduction",
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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."
}