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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-general-development-procedure-scotland-order-1992/article-16",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1992/224",
  "legislation_title": "The Town and Country Planning (General Development Procedure) (Scotland) Order 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-general-development-procedure-scotland-order-1992",
  "path": "article/16",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Directions as to environmental assessment Regulations",
  "text": "The Secretary of State may give directions—\n(a) that particular proposed development of a description set out in Schedule 1 or Schedule 2 to the Environmental Assessment (Scotland) Regulations 1988 is exempted from the application of those Regulations;\n(b) as to whether particular proposed development is or is not development in respect of which those Regulations require the consideration of environmental information (as defined in those Regulations) before planning permission can be granted; or\n(c) that development of any class described in the direction is development in respect of which those Regulations require the consideration of such information before planning permission can be granted.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1988/1221."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1994/3293",
      "affecting_title": "The Town and Country Planning (General Development Procedure) (Scotland) Amendment (No.2) Order 1994"
    },
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "ssi/1999/1",
      "affecting_title": "The Environmental Impact Assessment (Scotland) Regulations 1999"
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/224/article/16",
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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."
}