Chapter 4: Grant and Implementation of Planning Permission Chapter 6: Other Provision Section 132: Pre-consolidation amendment of planning, development and compulsory purchase legislation Effect
Subsections (1) and (4) provide the Secretary of State with the power to amend and modify relevant enactments by regulations in support of their future consolidation, including the ability to repeal and revoke enactments.
	Subsection (2) defines ‘relevant enactments’ for the purposes of subsection (1). Paragraph (a) provides for relevant enactments to include the enactments listed in subsection (3). Paragraph (b) widens this definition to include any other enactment which relates to planning, development or compulsory purchase (including compensation for such purchases). Paragraph (b) only brings into scope enactments to the extent that they contain provisions which relate to planning, development or compulsory purchase and does not allow for wider consolidation of those enactments.
	Subsections (5) and (6) provide that amendments and modifications made by regulations under subsection (1) only come into effect immediately before a related consolidation act comes into force.
	Subsection (7) provides that regulations under this section cannot make changes which would be within Scottish, Welsh or Northern Ireland devolved legislative competence, as defined in subsection (8). Subsection (7) includes an exception for changes which would be within devolved legislative competence where these arise from changes outside that devolved legislative competence. This power only allows technical changes to preserve legislative coherence and does not extend to substantive changes to legislation within devolved competence.
	Subsection (9) defines ‘Minister of the Crown’ in line with the Ministers of the Crown Act 1975 for the purposes of this section.