{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wildlife-and-countryside-act-1981/section-70A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wildlife-and-countryside-act-1981/section-70A.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1981/69",
  "legislation_title": "Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wildlife-and-countryside-act-1981",
  "path": "section/70A",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "70A",
  "heading": "Service of notices.",
  "text": "(1) Subject to subsection (2), section 329 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 and section 271 of the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1997 (which provide for the service of notices and other documents) shall apply to notices and other documents required or authorised to be served or given under this Act.\n(2) Subsections (2) and (3) of the said section 329 shall not apply to a notice required to be served under paragraph 2 of Schedule 14.\n(2A) Subsection (1)(cc) of the said section 271 shall not apply to a notice required to be served under section 14G.\n(2B) Subsection (2) of the said section 271 shall not apply to a notice required to be served under section 14D(5)(a).\n(3) This section shall not affect the operation of paragraph 2(4) of Schedule 11 or paragraph 3(4) of Schedule 15.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 70A inserted by Wildlife and Countryside (Services of Notices) Act 1985 (c. 59, SIF 4:5), s. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words substituted by Planning (Consequential Provisions) Act 1990 (c. 11, SIF 123:1, 2), s. 4, Sch. 2 para. 54(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 70A(1) substituted (27.5.1997) by 1997 c. 11, ss. 4, 6(2), Sch. 2 para. 34(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words substituted by Planning (Consequential Provisions) Act 1990 (c. 11, SIF 123:1, 2), s. 4, Sch. 2 para. 54(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "S. 70A(2A)(2B) inserted (S.) (2.7.2012) by Wildlife and Natural Environment (Scotland) Act 2011 (asp 6), ss. 17(7), 43(1) (with s. 41(1)); S.S.I. 2012/175, art. 2(1)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1990 c. 8 (123:1)."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 70A applied (E.W.) (30.1.2001) by 2000 c. 37, ss. 76(2), 103(2), Sch. 11 para. 22"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "asc/2026/7",
      "affecting_title": "Planning (Consequential Provisions) (Wales) Act 2026"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted (cond.)",
      "affecting": "asc/2026/7",
      "affecting_title": "Planning (Consequential Provisions) (Wales) Act 2026"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted (cond.)",
      "affecting": "asc/2026/7",
      "affecting_title": "Planning (Consequential Provisions) (Wales) Act 2026"
    },
    {
      "type": "words omitted by virtue of 2015 c. 20, Sch. 7 para. 10A (as inserted) (cond.)",
      "affecting": "asc/2026/7",
      "affecting_title": "Planning (Consequential Provisions) (Wales) Act 2026"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1981/69/section/70A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-31T10:30:49.503545+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."
}