Part 3: Planning Chapter 1: Planning Data Section 84: Power in relation to the processing of planning data Effect
Subsection (1) allows an appropriate authority to make planning data regulations to specify which planning data can be made subject to approved data standards and requiring planning authorities to comply with those standards once created.
	Subsection (2) defines "planning data" as information which is sent to or used by planning authorities under relevant enactments or for the purposes of planning or development.
	Subsection (3) defines "approved data standards" as written standards with requirements regarding planning data, that may be published by an appropriate authority.
	Subsection (4) stipulates that a devolved authority may only publish "approved data standards" in relation to purposes within their devolved competence.