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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-strategic-development-plan-wales-regulations-2021/introduction",
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  "legislation": "wsi/2021/360",
  "legislation_title": "The Town and Country Planning (Strategic Development Plan) (Wales) Regulations 2021",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-strategic-development-plan-wales-regulations-2021",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Town And Country Planning, Wales\nMade 18 March 2021\nLaid before Senedd Cymru 22 March 2021\nComing into force 28 February 2022\nThe Welsh Ministers, in exercise of the powers conferred upon them by sections 60M(5) and (6)(f), 66A(6)(b), (8) and (9), 69(1)(b) and (3), 76(2) and (3) and 122(3) of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 and in exercise of the powers conferred on the National Assembly for Wales by sections 63(3)(a) and (7), 64(3) and 77(1) of that Act, now exercisable by them (as applied in the case of sections 63(3)(a) and (7), 64(3), 66A(6)(b), (8) and (9), 69(1)(b) and (3), 76(2) and (3), 77(1) and 122(3) by section 60N of that Act), make the following Regulations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2004 c. 5. As to the power to prescribe by regulations, see section 122(1) and (2). “Welsh Ministers” was substituted for “National Assembly for Wales” in section 122(1)(b) by section 55(2) of, and paragraph 1(2) of Schedule 7 to, the Planning (Wales) Act 2015 (anaw 4) (“the 2015 Act”). The functions of the National Assembly for Wales in sections 63, 64, 69, 76, 77 and 122 of the 2004 Act were transferred to the Welsh Ministers by section 162 of, and paragraph 30 of Schedule 11 to, the Government of Wales Act 2006 (c. 32), the functions being relevant Assembly functions as defined in paragraph 30(2). Sections 60M and 60N were inserted by section 88 of, and paragraph 4 of Schedule 9 to, the 2021 Act. Section 66A was inserted by section 13 of the 2015 Act. Section 68A was inserted by section 8(1) of the 2015 Act. Section 69(1) was amended by section 8(2) of the 2015 Act."
    }
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  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2021/360/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:12:11.066180+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."
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