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<Text>A plan-making authority or the Welsh Ministers may disregard a representation about a plan if it considers or they consider that the representation is in substance a representation or objection to which this section applies.</Text>
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<Text>This section applies to a representation about, or an objection to, anything done or proposed to be done in pursuance of—</Text>
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<Text>an order or scheme under section 10, 14, 16, 18, 106(1) or (3) or 108(1) of the Highways Act (orders and schemes relating to trunk roads, classified roads, special roads, bridges, tunnels and diversion of watercourses);</Text>
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<Text>an order under section 1 of the New Towns Act <Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1981/64" id="c00016" Prospective="false" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Year="1981" Number="64">1981 (c. 64)</Citation> (designation of site of proposed new town).</Text>
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