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New Towns Act 1946

1946 Chapter 68

An Act to provide for the creation of new towns by means of development corporations, and for purposes connected therewith.

[1st August 1946]

Be it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows :—

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<inline name="tocHeading">Constitution of Development Corporations.</inline>
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<inline name="tocHeading">Appointment of members and tenure of office.</inline>
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<tocItem href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1946/68/schedule/SECOND/paragraph/1/enacted" level="4" class="item">
<inline name="tocNum">1</inline>
<inline name="tocHeading">The members of a development corporation (in this Schedule referred...</inline>
</tocItem>
<tocItem href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1946/68/schedule/SECOND/paragraph/2/enacted" level="4" class="item">
<inline name="tocNum">2</inline>
<inline name="tocHeading">Subject to the following provisions of this Schedule, a member...</inline>
</tocItem>
<tocItem href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1946/68/schedule/SECOND/paragraph/3/enacted" level="4" class="item">
<inline name="tocNum">3</inline>
<inline name="tocHeading">If the chairman or deputy chairman of the corporation ceases...</inline>
</tocItem>
<tocItem href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1946/68/schedule/SECOND/paragraph/4/enacted" level="4" class="item">
<inline name="tocNum">4</inline>
<inline name="tocHeading">Any member of the corporation may, by notice in writing...</inline>
</tocItem>
<tocItem href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1946/68/schedule/SECOND/paragraph/5/enacted" level="4" class="item">
<inline name="tocNum">5</inline>
<inline name="tocHeading">If the Minister is satisfied that a member of the...</inline>
</tocItem>
<tocItem href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1946/68/schedule/SECOND/paragraph/6/enacted" level="4" class="item">
<inline name="tocNum">6</inline>
<inline name="tocHeading">A member of the corporation who ceases to be a...</inline>
</tocItem>
<tocItem href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1946/68/schedule/SECOND/crossheading/remuneration/enacted" level="3" class="heading">
<inline name="tocHeading">Remuneration.</inline>
</tocItem>
<tocItem href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1946/68/schedule/SECOND/paragraph/7/enacted" level="4" class="item">
<inline name="tocNum">7</inline>
<inline name="tocHeading">The corporation shall pay to their members, in respect of...</inline>
</tocItem>
<tocItem href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1946/68/schedule/SECOND/crossheading/meetings-and-proceedings/enacted" level="3" class="heading">
<inline name="tocHeading">Meetings and proceedings.</inline>
</tocItem>
<tocItem href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1946/68/schedule/SECOND/paragraph/8/enacted" level="4" class="item">
<inline name="tocNum">8</inline>
<inline name="tocHeading">The quorum of the corporation and the arrangements relating to...</inline>
</tocItem>
<tocItem href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1946/68/schedule/SECOND/paragraph/9/enacted" level="4" class="item">
<inline name="tocNum">9</inline>
<inline name="tocHeading">The validity of any proceeding of the corporation shall not...</inline>
</tocItem>
<tocItem href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1946/68/schedule/SECOND/crossheading/instruments-etc/enacted" level="3" class="heading">
<inline name="tocHeading">Instruments, etc.</inline>
</tocItem>
<tocItem href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1946/68/schedule/SECOND/paragraph/10/enacted" level="4" class="item">
<inline name="tocNum">10</inline>
<inline name="tocHeading">The fixing of the seal of the corporation shall be...</inline>
</tocItem>
<tocItem href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1946/68/schedule/SECOND/paragraph/11/enacted" level="4" class="item">
<inline name="tocNum">11</inline>
<inline name="tocHeading">Any contract or instrument which, if made or executed by...</inline>
</tocItem>
<tocItem href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1946/68/schedule/SECOND/paragraph/12/enacted" level="4" class="item">
<inline name="tocNum">12</inline>
<inline name="tocHeading">Any document purporting to be a document duly executed under...</inline>
</tocItem>
<tocItem href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1946/68/schedule/THIRD/enacted" level="2" class="schedule">
<inline name="tocNum">THIRD SCHEDULE</inline>
<inline name="tocHeading">Enactments which may be suspended under Section Three.</inline>
</tocItem>
<tocItem href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1946/68/schedule/FOURTH/enacted" level="2" class="schedule">
<inline name="tocNum">FOURTH SCHEDULE</inline>
<inline name="tocHeading">Modifications of Provisions of the Town and Country Planning Act, 1944, as applied by this Act.</inline>
</tocItem>
<tocItem href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1946/68/schedule/FOURTH/crossheading/general-modifications/enacted" level="3" class="heading">
<inline name="tocHeading">General Modifications.</inline>
</tocItem>
<tocItem href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1946/68/schedule/FOURTH/paragraph/1/enacted" level="4" class="item">
<inline name="tocNum">1</inline>
<inline name="tocHeading">For references to an order under section one of that...</inline>
</tocItem>
<tocItem href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1946/68/schedule/FOURTH/paragraph/2/enacted" level="4" class="item">
<inline name="tocNum">2</inline>
<inline name="tocHeading">For references to a compulsory purchase order under that Act,...</inline>
</tocItem>
<tocItem href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1946/68/schedule/FOURTH/paragraph/3/enacted" level="4" class="item">
<inline name="tocNum">3</inline>
<inline name="tocHeading">For references to land or buildings acquired for the purposes...</inline>
</tocItem>
<tocItem href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1946/68/schedule/FOURTH/paragraph/4/enacted" level="4" class="item">
<inline name="tocNum">4</inline>
<inline name="tocHeading">For references to the purchase or acquisition of land by...</inline>
</tocItem>
<tocItem href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1946/68/schedule/FOURTH/paragraph/5/enacted" level="4" class="item">
<inline name="tocNum">5</inline>
<inline name="tocHeading">For references to a local planning authority (except the reference...</inline>
</tocItem>
<tocItem href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1946/68/schedule/FOURTH/paragraph/6/enacted" level="4" class="item">
<inline name="tocNum">6</inline>
<inline name="tocHeading">References to land appropriated for the purposes of Part I...</inline>
</tocItem>
<tocItem href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1946/68/schedule/FOURTH/crossheading/additional-modifications-of-particular-sections/enacted" level="3" class="heading">
<inline name="tocHeading">Additional Modifications of particular sections.</inline>
</tocItem>
<tocItem href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1946/68/schedule/FIFTH/enacted" level="2" class="schedule">
<inline name="tocNum">FIFTH SCHEDULE</inline>
<inline name="tocHeading">Modifications of Provisions of the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act, 1945, as applied by this Act.</inline>
</tocItem>
<tocItem href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1946/68/schedule/FIFTH/crossheading/general-modifications/enacted" level="3" class="heading">
<inline name="tocHeading">General Modifications.</inline>
</tocItem>
<tocItem href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1946/68/schedule/FIFTH/paragraph/1/enacted" level="4" class="item">
<inline name="tocNum">1</inline>
<inline name="tocHeading">For references to an order under section one of that...</inline>
</tocItem>
<tocItem href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1946/68/schedule/FIFTH/paragraph/2/enacted" level="4" class="item">
<inline name="tocNum">2</inline>
<inline name="tocHeading">For references to a compulsory purchase order under that Act,...</inline>
</tocItem>
<tocItem href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1946/68/schedule/FIFTH/paragraph/3/enacted" level="4" class="item">
<inline name="tocNum">3</inline>
<inline name="tocHeading">For references to land or buildings acquired for the purposes...</inline>
</tocItem>
<tocItem href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1946/68/schedule/FIFTH/paragraph/4/enacted" level="4" class="item">
<inline name="tocNum">4</inline>
<inline name="tocHeading">For references to the purchase or acquisition of land by...</inline>
</tocItem>
<tocItem href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1946/68/schedule/FIFTH/paragraph/5/enacted" level="4" class="item">
<inline name="tocNum">5</inline>
<inline name="tocHeading">For references to a local planning authority (except the reference...</inline>
</tocItem>
<tocItem href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1946/68/schedule/FIFTH/paragraph/6/enacted" level="4" class="item">
<inline name="tocNum">6</inline>
<inline name="tocHeading">References to land appropriated for the purposes of Part I...</inline>
</tocItem>
<tocItem href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1946/68/schedule/FIFTH/crossheading/additional-modifications-of-particular-sections/enacted" level="3" class="heading">
<inline name="tocHeading">Additional Modifications of particular sections.</inline>
</tocItem>
</toc>
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<preface>
<p class="title">
<shortTitle>New Towns Act 1946</shortTitle>
</p>
<p class="number">
<docNumber>1946 Chapter 68</docNumber>
</p>
<longTitle>
<p>An Act to provide for the creation of new towns by means of development corporations, and for purposes connected therewith.</p>
</longTitle>
<p class="DateOfEnactment">
<docDate date="1946-08-01">[1st August 1946]</docDate>
</p>
</preface>
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<inline name="smallCaps" style="font-variant:small-caps">Be</inline>
it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows :—
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