{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/levelling-up-and-regeneration-act-2023/schedule-16/paragraph-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/levelling-up-and-regeneration-act-2023/schedule-16/paragraph-9.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/9",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "New Towns Act 1981 (c. 64)",
  "text": "(1) Section 80 (general interpretation provisions) is amended as follows.\n(2) In subsection (1)—\n(a) after the definition of “local highway authority” insert—\n““locally-led development corporation” means a development corporation established for the purposes of a locally-led new town;\n“locally-led new town” means a new town the site of which was designated under section 1ZB;”;\n(b) after the definition of “open space” insert—\n““oversight authority”, in relation to a locally-led development corporation or locally-led new town, means the local authority or local authorities designated in relation to that corporation, or the corporation for that new town, under section 3(2C)(c) (but, in relation to a particular function, means only the local authority or local authorities by whom the function is exercisable);”.\n(3) In subsection (2), after “section 1” insert “or 1ZB”.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 16 para. 9 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/9",
    "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."
}