{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-act-1968/section-39",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-act-1968/section-39.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1968/72",
  "legislation_title": "Town and Country Planning Act 1968",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-act-1968",
  "path": "section/39",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "39",
  "heading": "Restriction on exercise by public authorities of power of disposing of land.",
  "text": "(1) Section 26(1) of the 1959 c. 53.Town and Country Planning Act 1959 (power of local and other public authorities to dispose of land without consent of a Minister) shall not apply to the exercise of a power to dispose of land conferred by any enactment if the power is exercised in respect of—\n(a) housing accommodation in respect of which there has been made to a local authority (whether before or after the commencement of that Act) an Exchequer payment within the meaning of section 58(2) of the 1958 c. 42.Housing (Financial Provisions) Act 1958 or a payment under an enactment repealed by the said Act of 1958 or any earlier Act and re-enacted (with or without modifications) by any of the provisions mentioned in the said section 58(2); or\n(b) an approved dwelling within the meaning of Part I of the 1967 c. 29.Housing Subsidies Act 1967.\n(2) Section 26(5)(b) of the said Act of 1959 (which makes provision corresponding to subsection (1) above in the case of a disposal of land under section 104 of the 1957 c. 56.Housing Act 1957) shall cease to have effect.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1968/72/section/39",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:52:32.457534+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."
}