{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/new-towns-act-northern-ireland-1965/schedule-1/part-I/paragraph-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/new-towns-act-northern-ireland-1965/schedule-1/part-I/paragraph-3.json",
  "legislation": "apni/1965/13",
  "legislation_title": "New Towns Act (Northern Ireland) 1965",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/new-towns-act-northern-ireland-1965",
  "path": "schedule/1/part/I/paragraph/3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "When a draft order has been prepared under paragraph 1, the Minister shall, before making the order,—\n(a) cause a copy of the draft order and of the statement referred to in paragraph 2 to be laid before Parliament;\n(b) deposit with the Clerk of the Parliaments a copy of any map prepared in pursuance of paragraph 1( a);\n(c) publish in the Belfast Gazette, and in one or more than one newspaper circulating in the locality in which the proposed new town will be situated, a notice—\n(i) describing the area to be designated as the site of the new town;\n(ii) describing any portion of that area distinguished under paragraph 1( b);\n(iii) stating that the draft of an order under section 1 has been prepared by the Minister in relation thereto, and has been laid before Parliament;\n(iv) naming a place or places (including a place in the area referred to in head (i)) where a copy of the draft order (including any map or descriptive matter annexed thereto) and of the statement referred to in paragraph 2 may be inspected at all reasonable hours; and\n(d) not later than the date on which the notice is published in the Belfast Gazette, serve a like notice on—\n(i) [ the district council for each] district in which the land, or any part of the land, to which the order relates is situated; and\n(ii) any other [ district council] that appears to the Minister to be concerned with the order.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "SRO (NI) 1973/285"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/apni/1965/13/schedule/1/part/I/paragraph/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T21:32:32.201049+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."
}