{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-town-planning-c-act-1919/section-42",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo5/9-10/35",
  "legislation_title": "Housing, Town Planning, &c. Act 1919",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-town-planning-c-act-1919",
  "path": "section/42",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "42",
  "heading": "Removal of necessity to obtain previous authorisation of Local Government Board to preparation or adoption of town planning scheme",
  "text": "It shall not be necessary for a local authority to obtain the authority of the Local Government Board to prepare or adopt a town planning scheme, and accordingly for subsection (2) of section fifty-four of the Housing, Town Planning, &c. Act, 1909, (hereinafter referred to as the Act of 1909), the following provision shall be substituted:—\n“(2) A local authority within the meaning of this Part of this Act may by resolution decide—\n(a) to prepare a town planning scheme with reference to any land within or in the neighbourhood of their area in regard to which a scheme may be made under this Act; or\n(b) to adopt, with or without any modifications, any town planning scheme proposed by all or any of the owners of any land with respect to which the local authority are themselves by this Act authorised to prepare a scheme :\nProvided that—\n(i) if any such resolution of a local authority extends to land not within the area of that local authority, the resolution shall not have effect until it is approved by the Local Government Board, and the Board may, in giving their approval, vary the extent of the land to be included within the area of the proposed town planning scheme ; and\n(ii) where any local authorities are desirous of acting jointly in the preparation or adoption of a town planning scheme, they may concur in appointing out of their respective bodies a joint committee for the purpose, and in conferring with or without restrictions on any such committee any powers which the appointing councils might exercise for the purpose, and the provisions of sections fifty-seven and fifty-eight of the Local Government Act, 1894, in regard to joint committees, shall, with the necessary modifications, apply to any joint committee so appointed.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo5/9-10/35/section/42",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:00:15.420359+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."
}