Town and Country Planning Act 1962

11 Publication, and date of operation, of development plans

(1) Immediately after a development plan has been approved or made or amended by the Minister under this Part of this Act, the local planning authority shall publish, in such manner as may be prescribed, a notice stating that the plan has been approved, made or amended, as the case may be, and naming a place where a copy of the plan, or of the plan as amended, may be seen at all reasonable hours, and shall serve a like notice—

(a) on any person who duly made an objection to, or representation with respect to, the proposed plan or amendment, and has sent to the local planning authority a request in writing to serve him with the notice required by this subsection, specifying an address for service, and

(b) on such other persons (if any) as may be required by general or special directions given by the Minister.

(2) Subject to the next following subsection, and to the provisions of Part XI of this Act as to the validity of development plans and of amendments of such plans, a development plan, or an amendment of a development plan, shall become operative on the date on which the notice required by the preceding subsection is first published.

(3) Where in accordance with subsection (4) of section five of this Act any land to which a development plan relates is designated as subject to compulsory acquisition in pursuance of an order which is subject to special parliamentary procedure, the last preceding subsection shall not apply to the plan in so far as it so designates that land.