Unless the context otherwise requires, any reference in this Act to an enactment shall be construed as a reference to that enactment as amended, applied or extended by or under any other enactment, and any expressions used in this Act and in the said Act of 1968 shall have the same meanings in this Act as they have in that Act.

This Act may be cited as the New Towns (Scotland) Act 1977 and extends to Scotland only.