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(1) This Order may be cited as the Town and Country Planning (General Development Procedure) (Amendment) Order 1997 and shall come into force on 1st July 1997.
(2) In this Order—
 “the 1995 Order” means the Town and Country Planning (General Development Procedure) Order 1995.
2 
In the table in article 10(1) of the 1995 Order (consultation before the grant of planning permission), after paragraph (z) insert—“

(za) Development likely to affect
(i) any inland waterway (whether natural or artificial) or reservoir owned or managed by the British Waterways Board ; or
(ii) any canal feeder channel, watercourse, let off or culvert,
which is within an area which has been notified for the purposes of this provision to the local planning authority by the British Waterways Board. The British Waterways Board”
3 
The amendments made to the 1995 Order by this Order shall not apply in relation to applications for planning permission made before 1st July 1997.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for the Environment
Robert Jones
Minister of State,
Department of the Environment
17th March 1997Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Wales
Gwilym Jones
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Welsh Office
17th March 1997