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Make
provision about the Green Belt; and for connected purposes. |
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Be
it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty,
by and with the advice and |
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consent of the Lords Spiritual
and Temporal, and Commons, in this present |
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Parliament assembled, and
by the authority of the same, as follows:— |
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Amendment
of Town and Country Planning Act 1990 |
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(1) |
Section 45 of the Town
and Country Planning Act 1990 (c. 8) (approval of
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proposals by Secretary of
State) is amended as follows. |
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(2) |
After subsection (2) insert— |
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“(2A) |
The Secretary of State
may not approve any proposal which would |
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involve
the removal of any Green Belt land, whether or not the |
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proposal
would also involve the adding of other land to the Green |
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(3) |
After subsection (5) insert— |
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“(6) |
In subsection (2A) “Green
Belt land” has the same meaning as in the |
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Green
Belt (London and Home Counties) Act 1938 (c. xciii).” |
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2 |
Amendment
of Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 |
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(1) |
Section 21 of the Planning
and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 (c. 5) |
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(intervention by Secretary
of State) is amended as follows. |
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(2) |
After subsection (4) insert— |
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“(4A) |
The Secretary of State
must give a direction under subsection (4) in |
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respect
of any document which would involve the removal of any |
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Green
Belt land, whether or not the document would also involve the
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adding
of other land to the Green Belt.” |
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(3) |
After subsection (9) insert— |
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“(9A) |
The Secretary of State
must reject any document to which subsection |
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(4) |
After
subsection (10) insert— |
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“(11) |
In subsection (4A) “Green
Belt land” has the same meaning as in the |
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Green
Belt (London and Home Counties) Act 1938 (c. xciii).”
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3 |
Short
title, commencement and extent |
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(1) |
This Act may be cited as
the Green Belt Reform Act 2006. |
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(2) |
This Act shall come into
force at the end of a period of two months beginning |
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with the day on which it
is passed. |
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(3) |
This Act extends to England
and Wales only. |
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