{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/new-towns-act-1981/section-63",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/new-towns-act-1981/section-63.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1981/64",
  "legislation_title": "New Towns Act 1981",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/new-towns-act-1981",
  "path": "section/63",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "63",
  "heading": "Secretary of State’s general power.",
  "text": "(1) The Secretary of State may direct a development corporation ... to pay to him, on the date specified in the direction, such sum as is so specified, and any sum so received by him shall, subject to section 66(2) below, be paid into the Consolidated Fund.\n(2) Before giving a direction under this section the Secretary of State shall consult the corporation ....\n(3) The debt shall carry interest at the rate for the time being in force under section 32 of the Land Compensation Act 1961 ... from the date specified in the direction until payment.\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 63(1) repealed (1.4.2009) by Housing and Regeneration Act 2008 (c. 17), s. 325(1), Sch. 5 para. 17(2), Sch. 16; S.I. 2009/803, arts. 3(1), 10"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 63(2) repealed (1.4.2009) by Housing and Regeneration Act 2008 (c. 17), s. 325(1), Sch. 5 para. 17(3), Sch. 16; S.I. 2009/803, arts. 3(1), 10"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 63(3) repealed by New Towns and Urban Development Corporations Act 1985 (c. 5, SIF 123:3, 4), s. 14(2), Sch. 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "S. 63(4) repealed by New Towns and Urban Development Corporations Act 1985 (c. 5, SIF 123:3, 4), s. 14(2), Sch. 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1961 c. 33."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 63 modified (E.) (24.7.2018) by The New Towns Act 1981 (Local Authority Oversight) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/891), regs. 1, 5(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "S. 63 excluded (S.) by New Towns and Urban Development Corporations Act 1985 (c. 5, SIF 123:3, 4), s. 14(1), Sch. 3 para. 9"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1981/64/section/63",
    "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."
}