{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/levelling-up-and-regeneration-act-2023/schedule-16/paragraph-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/levelling-up-and-regeneration-act-2023/schedule-16/paragraph-7.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2023/55",
  "legislation_title": "Levelling-up and Regeneration Act 2023",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/levelling-up-and-regeneration-act-2023",
  "path": "schedule/16/paragraph/7",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "New Towns Act 1981 (c. 64)",
  "text": "(1) Section 1A (local authority to oversee development of new town) is amended as follows.\n(2) For the heading substitute “Oversight of locally-led new town”.\n(3) Omit subsections (1), (2) and (3).\n(4) In subsection (4)—\n(a) for “a local authority” substitute “an oversight authority”;\n(b) after “as a” insert “locally-led”.\n(5) In subsection (5)—\n(a) in paragraphs (a), (b) and (c), for “a local authority” substitute “an oversight authority”;\n(b) in paragraph (d), for the words from “corporation”, in the first place it occurs, to the end substitute “locally-led development corporation”.\n(6) Omit—\n(a) subsection (7);\n(b) in subsection (8)—\n(i) the definition of “local authority”;\n(ii) paragraph (a) of the definition of “specified”.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 16 para. 7 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 255(7)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2023/55/schedule/16/paragraph/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:50:40.116941+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."
}