{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-general-development-procedure-scotland-amendment-order-1996/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1996/467",
  "legislation_title": "The Town and Country Planning (General Development Procedure) (Scotland) Amendment Order 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-general-development-procedure-scotland-amendment-order-1996",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Amendment of interpretation article",
  "text": "In article 2(1) of the 1992 Order—\n(a) after the definition of “cemetery” insert—\n““community council” means a community council as referred to in Part IV of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973;”;\n(b) delete the definition of “river purification authority”;\n(c) after the definition of “scheduled monument” insert—\n““SEPA” means the Scottish Environment Protection Agency established under section 20 of the Environment Act 1995;”; and\n(d) after the definition of “waste disposal authority” insert—\n““water and sewerage authority” means a new water and sewerage authority within the meaning of section 62 of the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1973 c. 65; see also the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994 (c. 39), section 22."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1995 c. 25."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1994 c. 39."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/467/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:51:21.548925+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."
}