This Act may be cited as the Planning and Compensation Act 1991.

Subject to subsection (4) below, this Act shall come into force on such day as the Secretary of State may by order made by statutory instrument appoint, and different days may be appointed for different provisions and for different purposes.

An order under subsection (2) above may contain such supplementary, incidental, consequential and transitional provisions as the Secretary of State thinks fit.

Sections 31(2), (3), (7) and (8) and 60(2), (3) and (5), paragraphs 1, 5 and 13 of Schedule 6 and the related repeals shall come into force on the day on which this Act is passed.

Nothing in any provision of this Act affects the punishment for an offence committed before the provision comes into force.

The enactments mentioned in Schedule 19 to this Act are repealed to the extent specified in the third column.

Parts I and III of this Act and section 81 extend to England and Wales only.

Parts II and IV of this Act extend to Scotland only.

This Act, apart from sections 82 and 83, does not extend to Northern Ireland.