{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/new-towns-act-1981/section-22",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/new-towns-act-1981/section-22.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1981/64",
  "legislation_title": "New Towns Act 1981",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/new-towns-act-1981",
  "path": "section/22",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "22",
  "heading": "Possession of houses.",
  "text": "If the Secretary of State certifies that possession of a house—\n(a) which has been acquired for the purposes of this Act by a development corporation or local highway authority, and\n(b) which is for the time being held by that corporation or authority for the purposes for which it was acquired,\nis immediately required for those purposes, nothing in the Rent (Agriculture) Act 1976 or the Rent Act 1977 or Part I of the Housing Act 1988 shall prevent that corporation or authority from obtaining possession of the house.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words inserted by Housing Act 1988 (c. 50, SIF 61), s. 140(1), Sch. 17 para. 31"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1976 c. 80."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1977 c. 42."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1981/64/section/22",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:13:40.790981+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."
}