Part 3: Planning Chapter 1: Planning Data Section 86: Power to require certain planning data to be made publicly available Effect
Subsection (1) gives the power to the Secretary of State to make regulations which may prohibit or limit the use of software by planning authorities where it has not been approved by the Secretary of State in writing.
	Subsection (2) defines the term "planning data software" as software which can be used by a planning authority to process planning data.