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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-scotland-act-1997/section-23D",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1997/8",
  "legislation_title": "Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-scotland-act-1997",
  "path": "section/23D",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "23D",
  "heading": "Meaning of “key agency”",
  "text": "Any reference in a provision of Part 1A or this Part to a “key agency” is to a person (other than an individual) or an officeholder which the Scottish Ministers specify as such for the purposes of that provision by regulations.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Pt. 2 substituted (19.5.2008 for specified purposes, 25.6.2008 for specified purposes, 28.2.2009 in so far as not already in force) by Planning etc. (Scotland) Act 2006 (asp 17), ss. 2, 59(2) (with savings and transitional provisions in S.S.I. 2008/165, arts. 1, 2 and S.S.I. 2008/427, arts. 1(1), 2-5); S.S.I. 2008/164, art. 2(1)(2), sch.; S.S.I. 2009/70, art. 2, sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 23D inserted (8.11.2019) by Planning (Scotland) Act 2019 (asp 13), ss. 10(a), 63(2); S.S.I. 2019/314, reg. 2, sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 23D substituted (8.11.2019) by Planning (Scotland) Act 2019 (asp 13), ss. 10(b), 63(2); S.S.I. 2019/314, reg. 2, sch."
    }
  ],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1997/8/section/23D",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:28:15.132338+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."
}