{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-timetable-for-decisions-england-order-2005/article-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-timetable-for-decisions-england-order-2005/article-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2005/205",
  "legislation_title": "The Town and Country Planning (Timetable for Decisions) (England) Order 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-timetable-for-decisions-england-order-2005",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement, interpretation and application",
  "text": "(1) This Order may be cited as the Town and Country Planning (Timetable for Decisions) (England) Order 2005 and shall come into force on 1st April 2005.\n(2) In this Order—\n“called-in application” means an application for planning permission or for the approval of any local planning authority required under a development order which has been referred to the First Secretary of State under section 77 of the Act;\n“section 78 appeal” means an appeal under section 78 of the Act;\n“the Act” means the Town and Country Planning Act 1990; and\n“the Listed Buildings Act” means the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990.\n(3) In this Order, any reference to “the First Secretary of State” shall, in relation to applications and appeals to which section 266 of the Act applies (applications for planning permission by statutory undertakers), be treated as a reference to the First Secretary of State and the appropriate Minister.\n(4) This Order applies in relation to England only.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 77 was amended by the Planning and Compensation Act 1991 (c. 34), Schedule 7, paragraph 18."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Section 78 was amended by the Planning and Compensation Act 1991, section 17(2)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1990 c. 8."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "1990 c. 9."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "See section 265 for meaning of “the appropriate Minister”."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/205/article/1",
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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."
}