{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/new-towns-act-1981/section-72",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/new-towns-act-1981/section-72.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1981/64",
  "legislation_title": "New Towns Act 1981",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/new-towns-act-1981",
  "path": "section/72",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "72",
  "heading": "Application and exclusion of certain enactments.",
  "text": "(1) Any property—\n(a) vested in any person by virtue of an order under section 40 or section 41 above transferring that property from a development corporation ..., or\n(b) of a new town corporation vested in a district council by a transfer scheme under Part III of this Act,\nshall not be treated as so vested by way of sale for the purpose of section 12 of the Finance Act 1895 (stamp duty on certain statutory transfers by way of sale).\n(2) For the purposes of section 9 of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 (which relates to the acquisition of inalienable land) this Act shall be deemed to have been passed before the commencement of that Act.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 72(1)(a) repealed (1.12.2008) by Housing and Regeneration Act 2008 (c. 17), s. 325(1), Sch. 5 para. 25, 16; S.I. 2008/3068, art. 2(1)(v)(2)5, Sch. (with arts. 6-13)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 72(1)(b) and the word “or” immediately preceding it repealed (prosp.) by Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (c. 42, SIF 81:1), ss. 194(4), 195(2), Sch. 12 Pt. II"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words substituted (30.1.1982) by Acquisition of Land Act 1981 (c. 67), Sch. 4 para. 33"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1895 c. 16."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1981 c. 67."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1981/64/section/72",
    "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."
}