PlanningI12

1

The Commission shall be treated as a Crown body for the purposes of the Planning (Northern Ireland) Order 19913 (“the Planning Order”) and accordingly—

a

the estate of the Commission in any land shall be treated as a Crown estate;

b

any development or works carried out by or on behalf of the Commission shall be treated as development or works carried out by or on behalf of the Crown; and

c

the use of land by the Commission shall be treated as use by or on behalf of the Crown.

2

In relation to land which is Crown land by virtue only of paragraph (1)(a), “the appropriate authority” for the purposes of Part XII of the Planning Order shall be the Commission.

3

If the Commission is entitled to occupy Crown land by virtue of a licence in writing, that licence shall be treated as a Crown estate rather than a private estate.

4

To the extent that the Commission has responsibility for the management of any land in which it has no estate, the Commission shall be treated as a government department for the purposes of sub-paragraph (b) of the definition of “the appropriate authority” in Article 118(1) of the Planning Order.

5

This Article shall be construed as if it were contained in Part XII of the Planning Order.