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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-act-1954/section-72",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/Eliz2/2-3/72",
  "legislation_title": "Town and Country Planning Act 1954",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-act-1954",
  "path": "section/72",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "72",
  "heading": "Short title, citation, commencement and extent.",
  "text": "(1) This Act may be cited as the Town and Country Planning Act, 1954, and the Town and Country Planning Acts, 1947 and 1951, the Town and Country Planning Act, 1953, in its application to England and Wales, and this Act, may be cited together as the Town and Country Planning Acts, 1947 to 1954.\n2),(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) This Act, . . . shall not extend to Scotland.\n(5) This Act shall not extend to Northern Ireland.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 69(1)(2), 72(2)(3) repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1989 (c. 43), s. 1(1), Sch. 1 Pt. VII"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1971 (c. 52), Sch. Pt. IX"
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:15:38.550837+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."
}