{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-scotland-act-1973/section-73",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-scotland-act-1973/section-73.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1973/65",
  "legislation_title": "Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-scotland-act-1973",
  "path": "section/73",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "73",
  "heading": "Appropriation of land.",
  "text": "(1) Subject to Part II of the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1959 and to the following provisions of this section, a local authority may appropriate for the purpose of any function, whether statutory or otherwise, land vested in them for the purpose of any other such function.\n(2) A local authority may ... exercise their power of appropriation under subsection (1) above with respect to any land specified in subsection (3) below subject to sections 117 and 118 of the Community Empowerment (Scotland) Act 2015.\n(3) The land to which subsection (2) above applies is land which is held for use as allotments (within the meaning of section 107 of that Act).",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in s. 73(2) repealed (1.4.2018) by Community Empowerment (Scotland) Act 2015 (asp 6), s. 142(1), sch. 4 para. 5(a)(i); S.S.I. 2017/458, art. 2, sch. (with art. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word substituted by Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Scotland) Act 1981 (c. 23), Sch. 2 para. 33(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 73(2) substituted (1.4.2018) by Community Empowerment (Scotland) Act 2015 (asp 6), s. 142(1), sch. 4 para. 5(a)(ii); S.S.I. 2017/458, art. 2, sch. (with art. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words substituted by Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Scotland) Act 1981 (c. 23), Sch. 2 para. 33(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in s. 73(3) inserted (1.4.2018) by Community Empowerment (Scotland) Act 2015 (asp 6), s. 142(1), sch. 4 para. 5(a)(iii); S.S.I. 2017/458, art. 2, sch. (with art. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1959 c. 70."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1973/65/section/73",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:46:26.996319+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."
}