{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-trees-regulations-1999/regulation-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-trees-regulations-1999/regulation-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1999/1892",
  "legislation_title": "The Town and Country Planning (Trees) Regulations 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-trees-regulations-1999",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Town and Country Planning (Trees) Regulations 1999 and shall come into force on 2nd August 1999.\n(2) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—\n“authority” means a local planning authority making, or having functions under, an order;\n“land affected by the order” includes any land adjoining the land on which the trees, groups of trees or woodlands to which the order relates are situated;\n“order” means a tree preservation order;\n“person interested”, in relation to land affected by an order, means every owner and occupier of the land and every other person whom the authority know to be entitled to fell any of the trees to which the order relates or to work by surface working any materials in, on or under the land;\nand any reference in these Regulations to a numbered section is a reference to the section so numbered in the Town and Country Planning Act 1990.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "See, as to Greater London and metropolitan areas, section 1(2) of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990; as to non-metropolitan areas, section 1(1) of, and paragraph 13(1) of Schedule 1 to, that Act; as to National Parks, section 4A of that Act (which was inserted by section 67 of the Environment Act 1995 (c. 25)), S.I. 1995/2803 and 1996/1243 (to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations) and, as to the Broads, section 5 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/1892/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:18:16.878246+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."
}