Local Government Act 1972

185 Town development.E+W

(1)In the M1Town Development Act 1952 (in this section referred to as “the principal Act”) in section 1(1) (which defines the term “town development” as applying to development in a county district, the provision of which will relieve congestion or over-population elsewhere) for the word “elsewhere” there shall be substituted the words “ outside the county comprising the district or districts in which the development is carried out ”.

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(4)The principal Act shall have effect subject to the amendments specified in Schedule 18 to this Act, being—

(a)amendments consequential on this Part of this Act, and

(b)amendments incorporating provisions of section 34 of the M2Housing Act 1961 and subsections (1) and (2) of section 61 of the M3London Government Act 1963 (modification of principal Act in relation to counties and to Greater London).

(5)Notwithstanding anything in subsection (1) above, any development carried out after the date on which that subsection comes into force as part of a scheme begun before that date, being a scheme of town development within the meaning of the principal Act as then in force, shall be treated as town development for the purposes of that Act.