{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-scotland-act-1972-repealed-2751997/section-56F",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-scotland-act-1972-repealed-2751997/section-56F.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1972/52",
  "legislation_title": "Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1972 (repealed 27.5.1997)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-scotland-act-1972-repealed-2751997",
  "path": "section/56F",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "56F",
  "heading": "References to regional planning authority and Secretary of State and appeals.",
  "text": "(1) Subject to subsections (2) . . . below, sections 32 to 34 of this Act . . . shall have effect in relation to applications for hazardous substances consent and to decisions on such applications as though they were applications for planning permission.\n(2) In the application of sections 32 to 34 of this Act to hazardous substances consent—\n(a) section 32(4) and section 33(5) and (7) shall be omitted;\n(b) the words “and in such manner as may be prescribed” shall be substituted for the words in section 33(2) following “time”;\n(c) in section 34, the words “by the development order” shall be omitted from both places where they occur.\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 56F inserted (18.2.1993 for certain purposes, otherwise 1.5.1993) by the Housing and Planning Act 1986 (c. 63, SIF 123:2), s. 35 (with s. 38(1)(a)); S.I. 1993/273, arts. 3, 5"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 56F(1) repealed (18.2.1993) by Environmental Protection Act 1990 (c. 43, SIF 46:4), ss. 162(2), 164(3), Sch. 16 Pt. VII; S.I. 1993/274, art. 2(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 56F(1) repealed (1.4.1996) by 1994 c. 39, s. 180(2), Sch. 14; S.I. 1996/323, art. 4(1)(b)(d), Sch. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "S. 56F(3) repealed (18.2.1993) by Environmental Protection Act 1990 (c. 43, SIF 46:4), ss. 162(2), Sch. 16 Pt. VII; S.I. 1993/274, art. 2(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 56F amended (27.8.1993) by 1993 c. 12, ss. 40(1), 51(2), Sch. 3 Pt. II para. 14 (with ss. 42, 46)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1972/52/section/56F",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:48:43.298883+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."
}