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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-general-development-procedure-scotland-amendment-order-1996/introduction",
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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": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING, SCOTLAND\nMade 26th February 1996\nLaid before Parliament 8th March 1996\nComing into force 1st April 1996\nThe Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 28(1), 33(2) and 273(3) of the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1972 and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1972 c. 52; section 28(1) was amended by the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 (c. 65), section 172(2) and by the Local Government and Planning (Scotland) Act 1982 (c. 43), Schedule 2, paragraph 6, extended by regulation 5 (as amended by S.I. 1994/2012) and regulation 10 of S.I. 1988/1221, and amended by the Planning and Compensation Act 1991 (c. 34) (“the 1991 Act”), Schedule 13, paragraph 7; section 33(2) was amended by the 1991 Act, Schedule 13, paragraph 11."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/467/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."
}