{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/new-towns-compulsory-purchase-of-land-regulations-1977/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/new-towns-compulsory-purchase-of-land-regulations-1977/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1977/549",
  "legislation_title": "The New Towns (Compulsory Purchase of Land) Regulations 1977",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/new-towns-compulsory-purchase-of-land-regulations-1977",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "NEW TOWNS\nMade 23rd March 1977\nLaid before Parliament 1st April 1977\nComing into Operation 22nd April 1977\nThe Secretary of State for the Environment, in relation to England, and the Secretary of State for Wales, in relation to Wales, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 10(3) and (4), 51(2)(b) and 53 of, and paragraphs 1, 2, 5 and 13 of Schedule 3 and 1, 2 and 5 of Schedule 4 to the New Towns Act 1965, and now vested in them, and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following regulations:—",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "As respects the Secretary of State for the Environment S.I. 1970/1681 (1970 III, p. 5551), and as respects the Secretary of State for Wales S.I. 1965/319 (1965 I, p.785)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1977/549/introduction",
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  },
  "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."
}