Overview of the Act Part 6 – Final Provisions Section 62: Minor and consequential amendments and repeals
282.Section 62 of the Act introduces schedule 2, which makes provision for amendments and repeals which follow from the main provisions of the Act. These are largely consequential changes to references and terminology throughout the 1997 Act. However, paragraph 4 of schedule 2 of the Act amends schedule 1 of the 1997 Act. This provides for a transitional regime which, in broad terms, allows existing development plans to remain in force until the relevant element of it falls away on the National Planning Framework or an authority’s local development plan first being revised following the Act’s enactment.