Section 4: Time limits on enforcement action.

Planning and Compensation Act 1991 · 1991 c. 34View on legislation.gov.uk

Part I: Town and Country Planning: England and Wales

At the beginning of Part VII of the principal Act (enforcement) there is inserted—

If, in the case of any breach of planning control, the time for issuing an enforcement notice has expired, before the coming into force of this section, by virtue of section 172(4)(b) of the principal Act (as originally enacted), nothing in this section enables any enforcement action to be taken in respect of the breach.

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