{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-general-regulations-1992/regulation-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-general-regulations-1992/regulation-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1992/1492",
  "legislation_title": "The Town and Country Planning General Regulations 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-general-regulations-1992",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Town and Country Planning General Regulations 1992 and shall come into force on 17th July 1992.\n(2) In these Regulations—\n“the 1990 Act” means the Town and Country Planning Act 1990; and\n“planning permission” includes permission in principle and, except in regulations 7 to 9, also includes any consent of a local planning authority required under a development order.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 1 substituted (E.) (1.6.2018) by The Town and Country Planning (Permission in Principle) (Amendment) Order 2017 (S.I. 2017/1309), art. 1, Sch. 2 para. 1(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 1 in force at 17.7.1992, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/1492/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:20:53.857781+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."
}