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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-scotland-act-1972-repealed-2751997/section-96",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1972/52",
  "legislation_title": "Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1972 (repealed 27.5.1997)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-scotland-act-1972-repealed-2751997",
  "path": "section/96",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "96",
  "heading": "Enforcement by, or by direction of, the Secretary of State.",
  "text": "(1) If it appears to the Secretary of State, after consultation with the. . . planning authority, to be expedient that a listed building enforcement notice should be served in respect of any land, he. . . may himself serve such a notice; and any notice so served by the Secretary of State shall have the like effect as a notice served by the. . . planning authority.\n(2) In relation to a listed building enforcement notice served by the Secretary of State, the provisions of sections 94(3) and 95 of this Act shall apply as if for any reference therein to the. . . planning authority there were substituted a reference to the Secretary of State.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word repealed by Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 (c. 65), s. 172(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words repealed by Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 (c. 65), Sch. 29"
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1972/52/section/96",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:48:43.298883+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."
}