# Levelling-up and Regeneration Act 2023, Paragraph 7: New Towns Act 1981 (c. 64)

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.
Status: prospective

(1) Section 1A (local authority to oversee development of new town) is amended as follows.
(2) For the heading substitute “Oversight of locally-led new town”.
(3) Omit subsections (1), (2) and (3).
(4) In subsection (4)—
(a) for “a local authority” substitute “an oversight authority”;
(b) after “as a” insert “locally-led”.
(5) In subsection (5)—
(a) in paragraphs (a), (b) and (c), for “a local authority” substitute “an oversight authority”;
(b) in paragraph (d), for the words from “corporation”, in the first place it occurs, to the end substitute “locally-led development corporation”.
(6) Omit—
(a) subsection (7);
(b) in subsection (8)—
(i) the definition of “local authority”;
(ii) paragraph (a) of the definition of “specified”.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2023/55/schedule/16/paragraph/7 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/levelling-up-and-regeneration-act-2023/schedule-16/paragraph-7
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