Amendment of First or Second Schedule
17.—(1)  For the purpose of determining the development charge payable under section 35(2) of the Act in respect of any development of land authorised by any planning permission or conservation permission, the First and Second Schedules as in force at the following dates shall be used and applied despite any amendment thereto made after such dates:
(a)where provisional permission has been granted for the development, the date of the provisional permission; or
(b)where no provisional permission has been granted, the date of the interim order issued under section 38(2) of the Act.
(2)  Notwithstanding paragraph (1), in any case under paragraph (1)(a) where the validity period of the provisional permission has been extended by the competent authority or the Minister, as the case may be, more than once and the second or any subsequent extension comes into effect on or after the date of commencement of any amendment to the First or Second Schedule, the First and Second Schedules as in force at the date when the last extension of the validity period comes into effect shall be used and applied to that case.
(3)  For the purposes of this rule —
(a)an amendment to the First or Second Schedule shall include any amendment which inserts or deletes or deletes and substitutes any entry in any Part of the First Schedule or any map in the Second Schedule;
(b)where any Part of the First Schedule is re-enacted and any entry in the new Part is, immediately before the re-enactment of that Part, not specified in that Part, the re-enactment of that Part shall be deemed to be an amendment that inserts that entry in that Part of the First Schedule; and
(c)an extension of the validity period of the provisional permission granted by the competent authority or the Minister, as the case may be, shall be deemed to have come into effect on the day immediately after the expiry of the validity period of the provisional permission or a previous extension thereof.