Petroleum and Submarine Pipe-lines Act 1975

36Planning permission for works requiring authorisations

(1)An application made after the coming into force of this section for planning permission for works for the construction or extension of any refinery or for converting plant into a refinery shall be of no effect unless it is accompanied by—

(a)a copy of an authorisation in force for all of those works in the area of the local planning authority for which an authorisation is required; or

(b)a certificate signed by or on behalf of the applicant and stating that no authorisation is required for any of those works in that area.

(2)Where at the time when this section comes into force—

(a)an application for planning permission made after 6th December 1974 is pending or any appeal to the Secretary of State connected with such an application is pending or the time within which such an appeal may be begun has not expired ; and

(b)if the application had been made after the coming into force of this section it would have been of no effect by virtue of the preceding subsection,

the application shall be of no effect, or as the case may be the appeal shall be stayed or not begun, until the authority to which the application was made is furnished with such a copy or certificate as is mentioned in that subsection in respect of the works to which the application relates.

(3)Where by virtue of the preceding subsection a prohibition imposed by that subsection on the beginning of an appeal ceases to be so imposed, the appeal may be begun during a period which begins with the cesser and is equal to so much of the time within which the appeal could have been begun apart from the prohibition as was unexpired when the prohibition was so imposed.

(4)In the preceding provisions of this section " local planning authority " and " planning permission " have the same meanings as in the [1971 c. 78.] Town and Country Planning Act 1971.