The Northern Ireland Assembly Commission (Crown Status) Order 1999

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2.—(1) The Commission shall be treated as a Crown body for the purposes of the Planning (Northern Ireland) Order 1991(1) (“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.