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Section 13: Legal challenges relating to national policy statements

Planning Act 2008 · 2008 c. 29View on legislation.gov.uk

Part 2: National policy statements

A court may entertain proceedings for questioning a national policy statement or anything done, or omitted to be done, by the Secretary of State in the course of preparing such a statement only if—

the proceedings are brought by a claim for judicial review, and
the claim form is filed before the end of the period of 6 weeks beginning with the day after —
the day on which the statement is designated as a national policy statement for the purposes of this Act, or
(if later) the day on which the statement is published.

A court may entertain proceedings for questioning a decision of the Secretary of State not to carry out a review of all or part of a national policy statement only if—

the proceedings are brought by a claim for judicial review, and
the claim form is filed before the end of the period of 6 weeks beginning with the day after the day of the decision not to carry out the review.

A court may entertain proceedings for questioning a decision of the Secretary of State to carry out a review of all or part of a national policy statement only if—

the proceedings are brought by a claim for judicial review, and
the claim form is filed before the end of the period of 6 weeks beginning with the day after the day on which the Secretary of State complies with section 6(5) in relation to the review concerned.

A court may entertain proceedings for questioning anything done, or omitted to be done, by the Secretary of State in the course of carrying out a review of all or part of a national policy statement only if—

the proceedings are brought by a claim for judicial review, and
the claim form is filed before the end of the period of 6 weeks beginning with the day after the day on which the Secretary of State complies with section 6(5) in relation to the review concerned.

A court may entertain proceedings for questioning anything done by the Secretary of State under section 6(5) after completing a review of all or part of a national policy statement only if—

the proceedings are brought by a claim for judicial review, and
the claim form is filed before the end of the period of 6 weeks beginning with the day after the day on which the thing concerned is done.

A court may entertain proceedings for questioning a decision of the Secretary of State as to whether or not to suspend the operation of all or part of a national policy statement under section 11 only if—

the proceedings are brought by a claim for judicial review, and
the claim form is filed before the end of the period of 6 weeks beginning with the day after the day of the decision.

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