<Legislation xmlns="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/namespaces/legislation" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2025/34" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2025/34" NumberOfProvisions="319" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/namespaces/legislation http://www.legislation.gov.uk/schema/legislation.xsd" SchemaVersion="2.0" RestrictExtent="E+W+S+N.I." RestrictStartDate="2026-04-01"><ukm:Metadata xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:dct="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:ukm="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/namespaces/metadata">
					<dc:identifier>http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2025/34/section/116</dc:identifier><dc:title>Planning and Infrastructure Act 2025</dc:title><dc:language>en</dc:language><dc:publisher>Statute Law Database</dc:publisher><dc:modified>2026-04-02</dc:modified><dc:contributor>Expert Participation</dc:contributor><dct:valid>2026-04-01</dct:valid>
					
					<atom:link rel="self" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2025/34/section/116/data.xml" type="application/xml"/><atom:link rel="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/def/navigation/resources" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2025/34/resources" title="More Resources"/>
					
					
					
					<atom:link rel="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/def/navigation/act" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2025/34" title="whole act"/><atom:link rel="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/def/navigation/introduction" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2025/34/introduction" title="introduction"/>
					<atom:link rel="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/def/navigation/body" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2025/34/body" title="body"/>
					<atom:link rel="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/def/navigation/schedules" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2025/34/schedules" title="schedules"/>
					
										
					
					
					
					<atom:link rel="alternate" type="application/rdf+xml" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2025/34/section/116/data.rdf" title="RDF/XML"/><atom:link rel="alternate" type="application/akn+xml" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2025/34/section/116/data.akn" title="AKN"/><atom:link rel="alternate" type="application/xhtml+xml" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2025/34/section/116/data.xht" title="HTML snippet"/><atom:link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2025/34/section/116/data.htm" title="Website (XHTML) Default View"/><atom:link rel="alternate" type="text/csv" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2025/34/section/116/data.csv" title="CSV"/><atom:link rel="alternate" type="application/pdf" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2025/34/section/116/data.pdf" title="PDF"/>
					<atom:link rel="alternate" type="application/akn+xhtml" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2025/34/section/116/data.html" title="HTML5 snippet"/>

					
					<atom:link rel="http://purl.org/dc/terms/tableOfContents" hreflang="en" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2025/34/contents" title="Table of Contents"/>
					
					<atom:link rel="http://purl.org/dc/terms/hasVersion" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2025/34/section/116/enacted" title="enacted"/><atom:link rel="http://purl.org/dc/terms/hasVersion" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2025/34/section/116/2025-12-18" title="2025-12-18"/>
					
					<atom:link rel="up" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2025/34" title="Entire legislation"/><atom:link rel="prev" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2025/34/section/115" title="Provision; Section 115"/><atom:link rel="prevInForce" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2025/34/section/115" title="Provision; Section 115"/><atom:link rel="next" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2025/34/section/117" title="Provision; Section 117"/><atom:link rel="nextInForce" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2025/34/section/117" title="Provision; Section 117"/>
					<ukm:PrimaryMetadata><ukm:DocumentClassification><ukm:DocumentCategory Value="primary"/><ukm:DocumentMainType Value="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct"/><ukm:DocumentStatus Value="revised"/></ukm:DocumentClassification><ukm:Year Value="2025"/><ukm:Number Value="34"/><ukm:EnactmentDate Date="2025-12-18"/><ukm:ISBN Value="9780105703037"/></ukm:PrimaryMetadata>
					

                    
									 
					<ukm:Alternatives><ukm:Alternative URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2025/34/pdfs/ukpga_20250034_en.pdf" Date="2025-12-18" Size="2494820" Print="true"/></ukm:Alternatives>
					
					<ukm:Statistics>
									<ukm:TotalParagraphs Value="319"/>
									<ukm:BodyParagraphs Value="202"/>
									<ukm:ScheduleParagraphs Value="117"/>
									<ukm:AttachmentParagraphs Value="0"/>
									<ukm:TotalImages Value="0"/>
								</ukm:Statistics>
				</ukm:Metadata><Primary><Body DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2025/34/body" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2025/34/body" NumberOfProvisions="202" RestrictExtent="E+W+S+N.I." RestrictStartDate="2026-04-01"><Part DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2025/34/part/6" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2025/34/part/6" NumberOfProvisions="5" id="part-6" RestrictExtent="E+W+S+N.I." RestrictStartDate="2026-02-18"><Number>Part 6</Number><Title>Miscellaneous and general provision</Title><P1group RestrictExtent="E+W+S+N.I." RestrictStartDate="2025-12-18"><Title>The Crown</Title><P1 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2025/34/section/116" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2025/34/section/116" id="section-116">
<Pnumber><CommentaryRef Ref="key-127a2c67d96f8dca673b07355bead8af"/>116</Pnumber>
<P1para>
<Text>The amendments made by this Act bind the Crown to the extent that the provisions amended bind the Crown.</Text>
</P1para>
</P1></P1group></Part></Body></Primary><Commentaries><Commentary Type="I" id="key-127a2c67d96f8dca673b07355bead8af"><Para><Text>S. 116  in force at Royal Assent, see <CitationSubRef id="n16e7fbaa114bb87a" SectionRef="section-118-6-b" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2025/34/section/118/6/b" Operative="true">s. 118(6)(b)</CitationSubRef></Text></Para></Commentary></Commentaries></Legislation>