{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/assisted-areas-order-1974/schedule/part-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/assisted-areas-order-1974/schedule/part-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1974/1372",
  "legislation_title": "The Assisted Areas Order 1974",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/assisted-areas-order-1974",
  "path": "schedule/part/1",
  "kind": "part",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "NEW SPECIAL DEVELOPMENT AREAS",
  "text": "The Merseyside Special Development Area being the whole of the Merseyside Development Area and consisting of the area designated by the Skelmersdale New Town (Designation) Order 1961 as varied by the Skelmersdale New Town (Designation) Amendment Order 1969 as the site of a proposed new town, and the employment exchange areas of:—\nBirkenhead Group (Bebington, Birkenhead and Wallasey)\nEllesmere Port\nHoylake\nLiverpool Group (Bootle, Crosby, Garston, Kirkby, Liverpool Old Swan, Regent Road (Liverpool) and Walton)\nNeston\nPrescot\nRuncorn\nSt. Helens\nWidnes\nThe North West Wales Special Development Area being part of the Welsh Development Area and consisting of the employment exchange areas of:—\nBlaenau Ffestiniog\nCaernarvon\nBangor\nBethesda\nPenygroes\nPwllheli\nPorthmadog\nHolyhead\nAmlwch\nBeaumaris\nLlangefni",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "uksi/1979/837",
      "affecting_title": "The Assisted Areas Order 1979"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1974/1372/schedule/part/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T21:26:29.198976+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}