{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-general-permitted-development-amendment-wales-order-2026/introduction",
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  "legislation": "wsi/2026/79",
  "legislation_title": "The Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (Amendment) (Wales) Order 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-general-permitted-development-amendment-wales-order-2026",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING, WALES\nMade 10 March 2026\nComing into force in accordance with article 1(2) and (3)\nThe Welsh Ministers, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 59, 60(1) and (3), 61(1), 108(2A)(a), (3C)(a), (5) and (6) and 333(4B), (7) and (8) of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 and now vested in them, make the following Order.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1990 c. 8. Section 59 was amended by section 27 of, and paragraphs 1 and 3 of Schedule 4 to, and section 55 of, and paragraph 5 of Schedule 7 to, the Planning (Wales) Act 2015 (anaw 4) and by section 1(2) of, and paragraphs 1 and 4 of Schedule 1 to, the Growth and Infrastructure Act 2013 (c. 27). Section 108(2A)(a), (3C), (5) and (6) was inserted by the Planning Act 2008 (c. 29), section 189, and amended by S.I. 2012/210 (W. 36). Section 333(4B) was inserted by the Planning (Wales) Act 2015, Schedule 7, paragraph 6(3). There have been other amendments to the 1990 Act which are not relevant to this instrument."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "The functions of the Secretary of State were, so far as exercisable in relation to Wales, transferred to the National Assembly for Wales by article 2 of the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/672): see the entry in Schedule 1 for the 1990 Act as substituted by S.I. 2000/253. The functions of the National Assembly for Wales were transferred to the Welsh Ministers by virtue of section 162 of, and paragraphs 30 and 32 of Schedule 11 to, the Government of Wales Act 2006 (c. 32). See also section 59(4) of the 1990 Act which provides that a development order in relation to Wales means a development order made by the Welsh Ministers."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "The power to make regulations under section 108 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 may be exercised to make an order by virtue of section 39 of the Legislation (Wales) Act 2019 (anaw 4)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2026/79/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:55:10.159737+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."
}