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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-act-1971/section-256",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-act-1971/section-256.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1971/78",
  "legislation_title": "Town and Country Planning Act 1971",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-act-1971",
  "path": "section/256",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "256",
  "heading": "Assistance for acquisition of property where objection made to blight notice in certain cases",
  "text": "The council of a county, county borough, London borough or county district or the Greater London Council may, subject to such conditions as may be approved by the Secretary of State, advance money to any person for the purposes of enabling him to acquire a hereditament or agricultural unit in respect of which a counter-notice has been served under section 194 of this Act specifying the grounds mentioned in subsection (2)(d) of that section as, or as one of, the grounds of objection if, in the case of a hereditament, its annual value does not exceed such amount as may be prescribed for the purposes of section 192(4)(a) of this Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/78/section/256",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:49:27.345605+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."
}