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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/new-towns-act-1946/schedule-FOURTH/crossheading-additional-modifications-of-particular-sections",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo6/9-10/68",
  "legislation_title": "New Towns Act 1946",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/new-towns-act-1946",
  "path": "schedule/FOURTH/crossheading/additional-modifications-of-particular-sections",
  "kind": "crossheading",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Additional Modifications of particular sections.",
  "text": "Section.\nModifications.\nSection three\nIn subsection (1) for paragraphs (a) and (b) there shall be substituted the following paragraphs :\n“(a) outside the area designated under the New Towns Act 1946 as the site of a new town for the purpose of securing the development of land in that area in accordance with proposals approved by the Minister under that Act; or\n(b) for the purpose of providing proper means of access to such an area,”.\nIn subsection (3) for the words \" submitted with an application for \" there shall be substituted the words \" prepared for the purposes of \".\nSection thirteen\nIn subsection (1) for the words \" The preceding provisions, of this Act \" there shall be substituted the words \" The provisions of the Now Towns Act, 1946 \" ; and after the words \" contained in \" there shall be inserted the wo.ds \" or incorporated with \".\nIn paragraph (b) of subsection (4) for the words \" the Minister having jurisdiction by virtue of the enactment in question to authorise a compulsory purchase thereunder \" there shall be substituted the words \" the Minister of Transport \".\nIn subsection (5) for the words \" subsection (1) of section two or under section four of this Act \" there shall be substituted the words \" section four of the New Towns Act, 1946 \" , and in paragraph (a) of the subsection the words \" application for the \" shall be omitted.\nSection fourteen\nSubsections (2), (7), (8) and (9) shall be omitted.\nIn subsection (5), paragraph (b) and the words \" and in a case falling within paragraph (b) thereof in accordance with the provisions of section ten of this Act \" shall be omitted.\nSection sixteen\nIn subsection (1), the words \" or order \" shall be omitted ; for the words \" twenty-eight days \" there shall be substituted the words \" six weeks \" ; and for the words \" this Act \" in the fourth and all subsequent places where those words occur, there shall be substituted the words \" the New Towns Act, 1946, or this Act \".\nIn subsection (4) for the words \" this Act \" there shall be substituted the words \" the New Towns Act, 1946, or this Act \".\nSection seventeen\nIn subsection (2) the words \" the authority on whose application an order under section one of this Act is made, and of \" shall be omitted.\nSection eighteen\nIn subsections (1) and (2) for the words \" this Part of this Act \" there shall be substituted the words \" the New Towns Act, 1946, and this Part of this Act. \"\nIn subsection (4) for the words \" this Part of this Act \" in the second place where those words occur, there shall be substituted the words \" the New Towns Act, 1946, and this Part of this Act \", and for the words \" this Part of this Act (together, in the case of the purchase under section four or subsection (4) of section nine of this Act, with the relevant enactment mentioned in section four of this Act) \" there shall be substituted the words \" that Act and this Part of this Act \".\nSection twenty-two\nIn subsection (1) for the words \" this Part of this Act \" in the second place where those words occur, there shall be substituted the words \" that Act \".\nSection twenty-three\nIn subsection (2), in paragraph (a) the words \" except where that authority applied for the making of the order \" shall be omitted.\nSection twenty-four\nIn subsection (3) for the words \" a Minister \" there shall be substituted the words \" the Minister of Transport \".\nSection twenty-five\nIn subsections (5) and (9) for the words \" a Minister \", wherever those words occur, there shall be substituted the words \" the Minister of Transport \".\nSection twenty-six\nIn subsection (1), in paragraph (a), for the words \" any purpose in connection with which a local planning authority may be authorised under this Part of this Act to acquire land \" there shall be substituted the words \" the purposes of a new town under the New Towns Act, 1946 \" ; and in paragraph (b) the words from \" or necessitated \", in the second place where those words occur, to the end of the paragraph shall be omitted.\nIn subsection (5), for the words \" any purpose in connection with which the authority may be authorised under this Part of this Act to acquire land \" there shall be substituted the words \" the purposes of a new town under the New Towns Act, 1946\nSection thirty\nIn subsection (1), after the word \" accommodation,\" in the first place where that word occurs, there shall be inserted the words \" suitable to the reasonable requirements of those persons ; \" and at the end of the subsection there shall be added the following paragraph:—\n“Where the land so acquired is land within the area designated under the said Act as the site of a new town, the references in this subsection to residential accommodation shall be construed as references to such accommodation in that area.”\nIn subsection (3), for the words \" acquiring or appropriating authority\" there shall be substituted the words \" corporation or highway authority \".\nIn subsection (5) for the words \" a Minister \" there shall be substituted the words \" the Minister of Transport \".\nSection fifty\nIn subsection (2) for the words \" section seven of this Act \" there shall be substituted the words \" section three of the New Towns Act, 1946 \".\nSection fifty-one\nIn subsection (1) for the words \" this Act \", in the first place where those words occur, there shall be substituted the words \" the New Towns Act, 1946 \".\nSection fifty-two\nIn subsection (2) for the words \" this Act \" there shall be substituted the words \" the New Towns Act, 1946, or this Act \".\nSection fifty-four\nFor the words \" this Act \", in both places where ' those words occur, there shall be substituted the words \" the New Towns Act, 1946, or this Act \" ; and for the words \" the authority\" wherever those words occur there shall be substituted the words \" the Minister, corporation or authority \".\nSection sixty-five\nThe definitions of \" clearing\", and \" loan charges\" shall not apply ; and in the definition of \" purchasing authority\" for the words \" a Minister purchasing under this Act \" there shall be substituted the words \" a development corporation purchasing under section four of the New Towns Act, 1946, and the Minister of Transport purchasing under section three of this Act \".\nFirst Schedule\nIn paragraph 1, in sub-paragraph (1), the words \" an application for an order under section one of this Act \" shall be omitted ; for the word \" thereof \" ., in both places where that word occurs, there shall be substituted the words \" of this Act \" ; and for the words \"a Minister\" there shall be substituted the words \" the Minister of Transport \" ; and in sub-paragraph (2) after the word \" sub-paragraph\" there shall be inserted the words \" or by any enactment incorporated therewith \".\nSecond Schedule\nIn paragraph 2, in sub-paragraph (3) (a), after the word \" advertisement\" there shall be inserted the words \" and by affixing a copy thereof, addressed to ' the owners and any occupiers of the land ' (describing it), to some conspicuous object or objects on the land \".\nIn paragraph 6, for the words \" land as to which an application for an order under section one of this Act is pending \" there shall be substituted the words \" land in an area proposed to be designated as the site of a new town by an order a draft of which has been published in accordance with the First Schedule to the New Towns Act, 1946 \" ; and for the word \" application \", in the second place where that word occurs, there shall be substituted the word \" order \".\nIn Part II for the words \" a Minister \", in both places where those words occur, and the words \"the Minister making the order\" and the words \" the Minister having jurisdiction to make the order \" there shall be substituted the words \" the Minister of Transport \" ; and paragraph 10 shall be omitted.\nThird Schedule\nIn Part II for the words \" a Minister \", in both places where those words occur, and for the words \" the Minister having, in conjunction with the appropriate Minister, jurisdiction to make the order \" and the words \" the Minister having jurisdiction as aforesaid \" there shall be substituted the words \" the Minister of Transport \".\nFourth Schedule\nIn paragraph 1, sub-paragraph (c) shall be omitted.\nIn paragraph 2, in sub-paragraph (4), after the word \" right \" there shall be inserted the word \" or \" ; and the words \" refusal of permission, grant of permission subject to conditions, or revocation or modification of permission \" shall be omitted.\nFifth Schedule\nFor the words \" Part I of this Act \", wherever those words occur, there shall be substituted the words \" the New Towns Act, 1946, and Part I of this Act \".\nIn paragraph 1, in sub-paragraph (1) (a) the words \" together, in the case of a purchase authorised by virtue of such an order as is mentioned in section four of this Act, with the relevant enactment mentioned in that section\" shall be omitted; and in sub-paragraph (1) (d) for the words \" a Minister \" there shall be substituted the words \" the Minister of Transport \", and for the words \" Part I of this Act \" there shall be substituted the words \" section three of this Act \".\nIn paragraph 9, in sub-paragraph (1) (b) for the words \" a Minister \" there shall be substituted the words \" the Minister of Transport \" and for the words \" four or nine thereof\" there shall be substituted the words \" of this Act \".\nIn paragraph 10, for the words \" section eleven of this Act,\" there shall be substituted the words \" subsection (4) of section six of the New Towns Act, 1946. \"\nSixth Schedule\nIn paragraph 8, for the words \" Part I of this Act \" there shall be substituted the words \" the New Towns Act, 1946, and Part I of this Act '.\nIn paragraph 12 for the words \" a Minister \", in both places where those words occur, there shall be substituted the words \" the Minister of Transport \".",
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