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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-northwood-headquarters-special-development-order-2025/article-7",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2025/37",
  "legislation_title": "The Town and Country Planning (Northwood Headquarters) Special Development Order 2025",
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  "path": "article/7",
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  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Documents: security and transparency",
  "text": "(1) Where—\n(a) a provision of this Order or an approval condition, however expressed, requires the Defence Secretary to give a document or information to the Secretary of State, and\n(b) for reasons associated with national defence, national security, or international relations, the Defence Secretary requires instead to give the Secretary of State access to that document or information by enabling it to be inspected in a secure location by or on behalf of the Secretary of State,\nthe Defence Secretary may comply with the requirement within sub-paragraph (a) by making the document or information available as described in sub-paragraph (b).\n(2) Subject to paragraph (3), the Secretary of State must make arrangements for a copy of—\n(a) the Map, and\n(b) each approved document, relevant approval notice, and subsequent approval notice (each such document being a “relevant document”),\nto be available for inspection by the public on a website maintained by or on behalf of the Secretary of State, and, by appointment, at the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, at 2 Marsham Street, London SW1P 4DF.\n(3) The Secretary of State must not make available under paragraph (2)—\n(a) a document or information that has been inspected as described in paragraph (1)(b);\n(b) any other information in respect of which the Secretary of State considers that making it available—\n(i) may compromise the security of a building or structure in, on, under or over the Order land, or the safety of those working or living in, or visiting, any such building or structure, or\n(ii) would otherwise be contrary to the national interest, having regard to considerations of defence, national security or international relations.\n(4) In determining under paragraph (3)(b) what information to make available under paragraph (2), the Secretary of State must have regard to any representations made by the Defence Secretary in relation to the considerations set out in paragraph (3)(b)(i) and (ii).\n(5) Where the Secretary of State determines—\n(a) that only some of the information in a relevant document is not to be made available under paragraph (3), the Secretary of State must redact that information from the copy of the relevant document containing it that is made available;\n(b) that all the information in a relevant document is not to be made available under paragraph (3), the Secretary of State must publish a statement identifying that relevant document, and stating that it is not being made available under paragraph (3).",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/37/article/7",
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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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