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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-blight-provisions-england-order-2000/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-blight-provisions-england-order-2000/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2000/539",
  "legislation_title": "The Town and Country Planning (Blight Provisions) (England) Order 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-blight-provisions-england-order-2000",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "ACQUISITION OF LAND, ENGLAND\nTOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING, ENGLAND\nMade 2nd March 2000\nLaid before Parliament 10th March 2000\nComing into force 1st April 2000\nThe Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by sections 149(3)(a) and 333(7) of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:–",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1990 c. 8, to which there are amendments not relevant to this Order. The Secretary of State can exercise the power under sections 149 and 333 only in relation to England: see article 2 of and Schedule 1 to S.I. 1999/672 as varied by article 4 of and Schedule 3, para (d) to S.I. 2000/253 (W.5)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/539/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."
}