{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-and-planning-act-1986/section-20",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-and-planning-act-1986/section-20.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1986/63",
  "legislation_title": "Housing and Planning Act 1986",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-and-planning-act-1986",
  "path": "section/20",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "20",
  "heading": "Disposal of dwellings in new towns.",
  "text": "(1) Part III of the New Towns Act 1981 (transfer of new town housing to district councils), is amended as follows.\n(2) After section 57 insert—\n“ Savings for other powers of disposal.\n57A The provisions of this Part as to the transfer of dwellings in a new town to a district council shall not be construed as restricting—\n(a) the power of the Commission under section 36 above,\n(b) The power of the development corporation under section 64 below, or\n(c) the power of the Development Board for Rural Wales under section 4 of the development of Rural Wales Act 1976,\nto dispose of such dwellings to any person.”.\n(3) The following provisions (which relate to the initiation of consultations with a view to the transfer of new town housing to a district council) are repealed—\nsection 43(3) and (4),\nsection 49(b) and (c).",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 20 repealed (prosp.) by Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (c. 42, SIF 81:1), ss. 194(4), 195(2), Sch. 12 Pt. II"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1981 c. 64."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "repealed",
      "affecting": "ukpga/1989/42",
      "affecting_title": "Local Government and Housing Act 1989"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1986/63/section/20",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:53:53.851580+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."
}