{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merseyside-development-corporation-planning-functions-liverpool-and-wirral-order-1988/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merseyside-development-corporation-planning-functions-liverpool-and-wirral-order-1988/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1988/1968",
  "legislation_title": "The Merseyside Development Corporation (Planning Functions) (Liverpool and Wirral) Order 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merseyside-development-corporation-planning-functions-liverpool-and-wirral-order-1988",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Order—\n“the 1971 Act” means the Town and Country Planning Act 1971 ;\n“the 1980 Act” means the Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980;\n“the development area” means the area designated as an urban development area by the Liverpool and Wirral Urban Development Area Order 1988 ; and\n“the development corporation” means the Merseyside Development Corporation .",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1971 c. 78"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1988/1967, the Merseyside Development Corporation exercises the functions of an urban development Corporation for the Liverpool and Wirral urban development area by virtue of this Order."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Established by the Merseyside Development Corporation (Area and Constitution) Order 1980 (S.I. 1981/481)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/1968/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:55:07.328482+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."
}