The Growth and Infrastructure Act 2013 (Commencement No. 6) Order 2014

Statutory Instruments

2014 No. 1531 (C. 60)

Town And Country Planning, England

The Growth and Infrastructure Act 2013 (Commencement No. 6) Order 2014

Made

9th June 2014

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 35 of the Growth and Infrastructure Act 2013(1), makes the following Order:

Citation

1.  This Order may be cited as the Growth and Infrastructure Act 2013 (Commencement No. 6) Order 2014.

Provisions coming into force on 1st October 2014

2.  Section 1 of, and Schedule 1 to, the Growth and Infrastructure Act 2013 comes into force on 1st October 2014, in so far as not already in force.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government

Nick Boles

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State

Department for Communities and Local Government

9th June 2014

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order is the sixth and last Commencement Order for the Growth and Infrastructure Act 2013 (“the Act”). It brings into force, on 1st October 2014 section 1 of, and Schedule 1 to, the Act, in so far as not already in force.

Section 1 of the Act inserts new provisions, sections 62A and 62B, into the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (“the 1990 Act”). Those sections provide for the designation of local planning authorities in accordance with criteria set by the Secretary of State. Where a local planning authority is designated a person wishing to apply for planning permission in the area of that authority may choose to apply to the authority as usual or instead apply to the Secretary of State. Schedule 1 to the Act makes consequential provisions in relation to the Secretary of State’s function of determining these planning applications. The final part of section 1 of, and Schedule 1 to, the Act brought into force by this Order relates to connected applications (as defined in section 62A(3) of the 1990 Act).

(1)

2013 c. 27.