The Infrastructure Planning (Rights of Entry Notice) Regulations 2026
UK Statutory Instrument 2026 No. 737 — creates 2 criminal offences.
- Made
- 30 June 2026
- In force from
- 24 July 2026
- Extent
- Not stated
- Subject
- Housing, planning, heritage and land
- Made under
- Planning Act 2008
Explanatory note
(This note is not part of the Regulations) — published with the instrument by the department that made it. © Crown copyright, reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
The Planning Act 2008 (c. 29) (“the Act”) provides for the granting of development consent for certain types of nationally significant infrastructure projects. Section 53(1) of the Act provides an authorised person with the right to enter any land in connection with an application, proposed application or order granting development consent for the purpose of surveying and taking levels of it, or in order to facilitate compliance with the provisions mentioned in section 53(1A) of the Act. A person exercising a right of entry onto any land must provide at least 14 days’ notice of the intended entry to every owner or occupier of the land. Regulation 3 prescribes the information that must be included in, and must accompany, the rights of entry notice. A full impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no, or no significant, impact on the private, voluntary or public sector is foreseen.
Offences created by this instrument
- Rights of entry notice: Prescribed information regulation 3(1) · Status not determined · Requires proof of a state of mind
- Rights of entry notice: Prescribed information regulation 3(1)(k) · Status not determined · Requires proof of a state of mind
What Parliament said about it
Hansard was searched for this instrument by name and returned nothing. That is the ordinary outcome: an instrument laid under the negative procedure is usually never debated, and becomes law without a word said about it in either House.
How Parliament handled it
This instrument became law without a debate or a vote. Under the negative procedure it took effect unless a motion to stop it succeeded, and none was tabled.
- Procedure
- Made negative — law unless a motion to stop it succeeded
- Could either House amend it?
- No. A statutory instrument is put to each House as a whole thing, to be approved or not. Neither House can change a word of it.
Procedural history
- Instrument created 30 June 2026
- Instrument made (signed into law) 30 June 2026
- Laid before the House of Commons 3 July 2026 · Commons
- Laid before the House of Lords 3 July 2026 · Lords
- Considered by the Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee (SLSC) 14 July 2026 · Lords
- No comment by the Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee (SLSC) 14 July 2026 · Lords
- Instrument comes into force as law 24 July 2026
- Considered by the Joint Committee on Statutory Instruments (JCSI) 2 September 2026 · Commons, Lords
- Not drawn to the special attention of the Houses by the Joint Committee on Statutory Instruments (JCSI) 2 September 2026 · Commons, Lords
- Objection period ends 13 October 2026
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