Adaptation of enactments in consequence of article 3E+W
4.—(1) This article has effect in consequence of article 3(1).
(2) Part 8 of the 1999 Act applies in relation to the preparation and publication of a spatial development strategy by the Combined Authority as it applies in relation to the preparation and publication of a spatial development strategy by the Mayor of London, with the modifications made by Part 1 of Schedule 1.
(3) Sections 343 (regulations) and 420 of the 1999 Act (orders and regulations) apply in relation to the functions of the Secretary of State to make regulations by statutory instrument under section 343(1) with respect to all or any of the following —
(a)the form and content of the spatial development strategy published by the Combined Authority;
(b)the documents (if any) the Secretary of State requires to accompany the spatial development strategy published by the Combined Authority;
(c)the procedure to be followed by the Combined Authority in connection with the preparation, withdrawal, publication, making, review, alteration or replacement of the spatial development strategy, or in connection with any review under section 339 as modified by Part 1 of Schedule 1; and
(d)the procedure to be followed at an examination in public examining matters affecting the consideration of the spatial development strategy,
as they apply in relation to the functions of the Secretary of State to make such regulations in relation to the spatial development strategy published by the Mayor of London.
(4) Subject to paragraph (6) and to Schedule 1, in any enactment passed or made on or before 8th May 2017—
(a)any reference to a spatial development strategy, or
(b)any reference which falls to be read as a reference to a spatial development strategy,
is to be treated as including a reference to a strategy prepared and published in accordance with the function conferred by article 3(1).
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(6) Paragraph (4) does not apply to—
(a)section 41 of the 1999 Act (general duties of the Mayor in relation to his strategies)(1);
(b)section 356A of the 1999 Act (London Waste and Recycling Board)(2);
(c)section 10 of the London Olympic Games and Paralympic Games Act 2006(3); and
(d)the Town and Country Planning (London Spatial Development Strategy) Regulations 2000(4).
Textual Amendments
F1Art. 4(5) omitted (25.3.2026) by virtue of The Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 (Local Planning) (Modification and Consequential Amendments) (England) Regulations 2026 (S.I. 2026/170), regs. 1(2), 20(2)
Commencement Information
I1Art. 4 in force at 17.3.2017, see art. 1(2)
Section 41 was amended by sections 24, 28 and 41 of the Greater London Authority Act 2007; and sections 192, 225, 227 and 237 of and paragraph 2 of Schedule 23 and paragraph 1 of Schedule 25 to the 2011 Act.
Section 356A was inserted by section 38 of the Greater London Authority Act 2007 and amended by sections 225 of, and paragraph 6 of Schedule 23 to, the 2011 Act.
2006 c. 12. Section 10 was amended by section 195 of, and paragraph 9 of Schedule 20 to, the 2011 Act.