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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-major-infrastructure-project-inquiries-procedure-england-rules-2002/rule-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-major-infrastructure-project-inquiries-procedure-england-rules-2002/rule-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2002/1223",
  "legislation_title": "The Town and Country Planning (Major Infrastructure Project Inquiries Procedure) (England) Rules 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-major-infrastructure-project-inquiries-procedure-england-rules-2002",
  "path": "rule/3",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Application of Rules",
  "text": "(1) These Rules apply in relation to any local inquiry relating to a major infrastructure project caused by the Secretary of State to be held in England before he determines—\n(a) an application for planning permission referred to him under section 77, or an appeal to him under section 78, of the Planning Act;\n(b) an application for listed building consent referred to him under section 12, or for variation or discharge of conditions referred to him under that section as applied by section 19, or an appeal to him under section 20, of the Listed Buildings Act;\n(c) an application for conservation area consent referred to him under section 12 (including an application to which that section is applied by section 19), or an appeal to him under section 20, of the Listed Buildings Act as those sections are applied by section 74(3) of that Act,\nbut do not apply to any local inquiry by reason of the application of any provision mentioned in this paragraph by any other enactment.\n(2) Where these Rules apply in relation to an application for planning permission or to an appeal which at some time fell to be disposed of in accordance with the 2000 Rules any step taken or thing done under those Rules which could have been done under any corresponding provision of these Rules shall have effect as if it had been taken or done under that corresponding provision.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "uksi/2015/316",
      "affecting_title": "The Town and Country Planning (Hearings and Inquiries Procedure) (England) (Amendment and Revocation) Rules 2015"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/1223/rule/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:58:55.421966+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."
}