{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/london-docklands-development-corporation-planning-functions-order-1997/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1997/2946",
  "legislation_title": "The London Docklands Development Corporation (Planning Functions) Order 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/london-docklands-development-corporation-planning-functions-order-1997",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "URBAN DEVELOPMENT\nTOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING, ENGLAND AND WALES\nMade 11th December 1997\nLaid before Parliament 16th December 1997\nComing into force 28th January 1998\nThe Secretary of State for the Environment, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 134(3A) and (5), 148(2) and 149(1), (3) and (11) of the Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980 and sections 59 and 333(7) of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990, and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, after consultation with the councils of the London boroughs of Newham, Southwark and Tower Hamlets, hereby makes the following Order—",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1980 c. 65; subsections (3A) and (5) of section 134 were inserted by section 179 of the Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993 (c. 28). Subsections (1) and (3) of section 149 were amended by Part I of Schedule 1 and paragraph 44(6) of Schedule 2 to the Planning (Consequential Provisions) Act 1990 (c. 11). Section 149(1) enables the Secretary of State to provide that an urban development corporation shall be the local planning authority for the whole or any portion of its area for such purposes of Part III of the 1990 Act, and in relation to such kinds of development, as may be prescribed; see section 149(13) for the definition of “prescribed”."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1990 c. 8."
    }
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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