{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-transitional-provisions-order-1974/article-5",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1974/459",
  "legislation_title": "The Town and Country Planning (Transitional Provisions) Order 1974",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-transitional-provisions-order-1974",
  "path": "article/5",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Any order made before 1st April 1974 by or on behalf of an existing local planning authority under section 60 of the Act of 1971 (tree preservation orders), or having effect as if so made, shall have effect as if it had been made\n(a) by the county planning authority or the district planning authority in whose area the land to which the order relates is situate as agreed before 1st April 1974 between those authorities (except in the case of any order made by the existing Lake District Planning Board or Peak Park Planning Board), or\n(b) where there is no such agreement before 1st April 1974, in the case of an order made by the council of an existing county, by the county planning authority in whose area the land is situate or, if more than one, insofar as it relates to any part of the land, by the county planning authority in whose area such part is situate; in the case of an order made by the council of an existing county borough or of an existing county district acting on behalf of the council of an existing county, by the district planning authority in whose area the land is situate or, if more than one, insofar as it relates to any part of the land, by the district planning authority in whose area such part is situate; and in the case of an order made by the existing Lake District Planning Board or Peak Park Planning Board, by the Lake District Special Planning Board for the Lake District National Park or the Peak Park Joint Planning Board for the Peak District National Park, as the case may be.\n(2) Any register of applications for consent required to be kept by or on behalf of an existing local planning authority under a tree preservation order shall be delivered on 1st April 1974 to the local planning authority to whom the relevant order is transferred under paragraph (1) of this article or, if more than one, such part of the register (or if this is not practicable, a copy of such part of the register) as relates to the area of each such local planning authority shall be delivered to that authority.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1974/459/article/5",
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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."
}