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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-hearings-and-inquiries-procedure-england-amendment-and-revocation-rules-2015/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2015/316",
  "legislation_title": "The Town and Country Planning (Hearings and Inquiries Procedure) (England) (Amendment and Revocation) Rules 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-hearings-and-inquiries-procedure-england-amendment-and-revocation-rules-2015",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Rules)\nThese Rules amend the Town and Country Planning (Inquiries Procedure) (England) Rules 2000 (S.I. 2000/1624), the Town and Country Planning Appeals (Determination by Inspectors) (Inquiries Procedure) (England) Rules 2000 (S.I. 2000/1625) and the Town and Country Planning (Hearing Procedure) (England) Rules 2000 (S.I. 2000/1626) (together “the 2000 Rules”) so that the 2000 Rules apply to advertisement appeals which are to be dealt with by an inquiry or a hearing in England.\nRules 2, 3 and 4 amend the Town and Country Planning (Inquiries Procedure) (England) Rules 2000 so that they explicitly apply to advertisement appeals, and rule 4(c) also removes a now redundant reference to conservation area consent.\nRule 5 amends the Town and Country Planning (Determination by Inspectors) (Inquiries and Procedure) (England) Rules 2000 (S.I. 2000/1625) so that they apply to advertisement appeals and inserts a new rule 24A into those Rules so that the changes made to these Rules by S.I. 2013/2137 do not apply in the case of advertisement appeals, and rule 6 makes equivalent amendments to the Town and Country Planning (Hearings Procedure) (England) Rules 2000.\nRule 7 revokes, in England—\nrule 21 of the Town and Country Planning (Inquiries Procedure) Rules 1992;\nthe Town and Country Planning (Various Inquiries) (Procedure) (Amendment) Rules 1986 in so far as they are still in force;\nthe Town and Country Planning (Major Infrastructure Project Inquiries Procedure) (England) Rules 2002, in so far as they are still in force; and\nthe Town and Country Planning (Major Infrastructure Project Inquiries Procedure) (England) Rules 2005,\nand other instruments which amend those instruments, to the extent specified in the Schedule. Rule 7 also makes transitional and saving provision.\nA full regulatory impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no impact on the private or voluntary sectors is foreseen.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/316/note",
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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."
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