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PLANNING (NORTHERN IRELAND) ORDER 1972 - SECT 41



41.(1) Subject to this Article, provision shall be made by regulations under
this Order for restricting or regulating the display of advertisements so far
as appears to the Ministry to be expedient in the interests of amenity or
public safety.

(2) Without prejudice to paragraph (1), any such regulations may provide

(a)for regulating the dimensions, appearance and position of advertisements
which may be displayed, the sites on which advertisements may be displayed and
the manner in which they are to be affixed to the land;

(b)for requiring the consent of the Ministry to be obtained for the display of
advertisements;

(c)for applying in relation to any such consent and to applications for such
consent any of the provisions of Part IV or IX [or of Part III of the Act of
1965 (compensation for planning restrictions)], subject to such adaptations
and modifications as may be specified in the regulations.

(3) Areas of special control for the purposes of regulations under this
Article may be defined by means of orders made by the Ministry in accordance
with the regulations.

(4) Where the Ministry is authorised by the regulations to make any such order
as is mentioned in paragraph (3), the regulations shall provide for the
publication of notice of the proposed order in such manner as may be
prescribed by the regulations, for the consideration of objections duly made
thereto and for the holding of such inquiries or other hearings by the
planning appeals commission as may be so prescribed before the order is made.

(5) Where the display of advertisements in accordance with regulations made
under this Article involves development of land, planning permission for that
development shall be deemed to be granted by virtue of this Article, and no
application shall be necessary in that behalf under Part IV.



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