Explanatory note
These Regulations revoke and re-enact the New Towns (Particulars and Forms of Orders and Notices) Regulations 1947, with amendments which take account of the provisions of the New Towns Act 1965 and the Town and Country Planning Act 1968 (c. 72).
The principal changes are—
references to appropriate provisions of the Act of 1965 have been substituted for references to the provisions of earlier Acts repealed by that Act;
forms which related to the expedited completion of the compulsory purchase of land for the purposes of a new town have been omitted, since the old power to effect such expedited completion has been replaced in the Act of 1968 by a power to make general vesting declarations;
a number of forms have been recast to bring them into line with the equivalent forms prescribed by the Compulsory Purchase of Land Regulations 1976 (S.I. 1976/300) in connection with the making and confirmation of compulsory purchase orders to which the provisions of the Acquisition of Land (Authorisation Procedure) Act 1946 (c. 49) apply.