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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-planning-and-land-act-1980/schedule-23/paragraph-3",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1980/65",
  "legislation_title": "Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-planning-and-land-act-1980",
  "path": "schedule/23/paragraph/3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "The following subsection shall be substituted for section 23(2) of the Town and Country Planning Act 1959:—\n“(2) Before exercising any power of appropriation in relation to land which consists or forms part of open space, not being land which consists or forms part of a common or of a fuel or field garden allotment, an authority to whom this Part of this Act applies—\n(a) shall publish a notice of their intention to do so for at least two consecutive weeks in a newspaper circulating in their area; and\n(b) shall consider any objections to the proposed appropriation which may be made to them.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1959 c. 53."
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  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1980/65/schedule/23/paragraph/3",
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  "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."
}