Part III

Control over Development

Duration of planning permission

Power of Secretary of State to serve completion notice.
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1
If it appears to the Secretary of State that it is expedient that a completion notice should be served in respect of any land, he may himself serve such a notice under section 61.
2
A completion notice served by the Secretary of State shall have the same effect as if it had been served by the planning authority.
3
The Secretary of State shall not serve such a notice without consulting the planning authority.
4
The provisions of this Act relating to completion notices apply, so far as relevant, to a completion notice served by the Secretary of State as they apply to a completion notice served by a planning authority, but with the substitution for any reference in those provisions to the planning authority of a reference to the Secretary of State, and any other necessary modifications.