{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-scotland-act-1972-repealed-2751997/section-56N",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-scotland-act-1972-repealed-2751997/section-56N.json",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  "legislation_title": "Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1972 (repealed 27.5.1997)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-scotland-act-1972-repealed-2751997",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/56N",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "56N",
  "heading": "Registers, etc.",
  "text": "(1) Every planning authority shall keep, in such manner as may be prescribed, a register containing such information as may be so prescribed with respect—\n(a) to applications for hazardous substances consent made to that authority;\n(aa) to applications under section 56K(2) above made to that authority;\n(b) to hazardous substances consent deemed to be granted under section 38 of the Housing and Planning Act 1986 with respect to land in relation to which that authority is . . . the planning authority;\n(c) to revocations or modifications of hazardous substances consent granted with respect to such land; and\n(d) to directions under section 56M above sent to the authority by the Secretary of State, , and every such register shall also contain such information as may be prescribed as to the manner in which applications for hazardous substances consent have been dealt with.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) Every register kept under this section shall be available for inspection by the public at all reasonable hours.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 56N 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. 56N(1) substituted (18.2.1993) by Environmental Protection Act 1990 (c. 43, SIF 46:4), s. 144, Sch. 13 para. 11(9)(a); S.I. 1993/274, art. 2(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in S. 56N(1)(b) repealed (18.2.1993) by Environmental Protection Act 1990 (c. 43, SIF 46:4), s. 162(2), Sch. 16 Pt. VII; S.I. 1993/274, art.2(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 56N(1)(d) inserted (18.2.1993) by Environmental Protection Act 1990 (c. 43, SIF 46:4), s. 144, Sch. 13 para. 11(9)(b); S.I. 1993/274, art.2(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "S. 56N(2) repealed (18.2.1993) by Environmental Protection Act 1990 (c. 43, SIF 46:4), s. 162(2), Sch. 16 Pt. VII; S.I. 1993/274, art.2(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 56N 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/56N",
    "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."
}