New Towns (Scotland) Act 1968
New towns and their development corporations
1 Designation of site of new town.
1A Reduction of designated areas.
2 Establishment of development corporation for new town.
3 Objects and general powers of development corporation.
4 Restrictions on powers of development corporation.
5 Allocation or transfer of new town functions to existing or new development corporation.
Planning control in new towns
6 Planning control in new town.
Acquisition of land by development corporations and highway authorities
7 Acquisition of land by development corporation.
8 Acquisition of land for highways in connection with new towns.
9 Recording of compulsory purchase orders.
10 Special procedure for acquisition of statutory undertakers’ operational land.
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12 Application of Lands Clauses Acts etc. and modification of Land Compensation (Scotland) Act 1963, for purposes of this Act.
13 Measure of compensation for acquisition of statutory undertakers’ operational land.
14 Extinguishment of rights over land compulsorily acquired.
Expedited completion of compulsory acquisition
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Disposal of land by development corporations
18 Disposal of land by development corporation.
18AA Power of development corporation to dispose of housing land.
18A Secretary of State’s general power.
18B Disposal of land to comply with direction under s. 18A.
18C Payments under s. 18A treated as repayments.
Powers exercisable in relation to land acquired by development corporations or highway authorities
19 Power to override servitudes and other rights.
20 Use and development of churches and burial grounds.
21 Use and development of open spaces.
22 Displacement of persons from land acquired.
23 Extinguishment of public rights of way over land acquired.
24 Provisions as to telegraphic lines.
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Statutory undertakers
26 Extinguishment of rights of way, and rights as to apparatus, of statutory undertakers.
27 Orders under s. 26.
28 Extension or modification of functions of statutory undertakers.
29 Procedure in relation to orders under s. 28.
30 Relief of statutory undertakers from obligations rendered impracticable.
31 Objections to orders under ss. 28 and 30.
Provision of trolley vehicle services by development corporations
32 Power to authorise provision of trolley vehicle services by development corporation.
Public services
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34 Power to authorise provision of services by development corporation.
Transfer of property and undertakings of development corporations, and their dissolution
35 Power of development corporation to transfer their undertakings.
36 Winding up of development corporation.
36A Application of sections 35 etc. to operators of telecommunication systems.
36B Additional power to dispose of property etc.
36C Direction and order making powers of Secretary of State.
36D Transfer orders.
36E Reduction of liability of development corporation.
36F Grants by Secretary of State.
36G Dissolution of development corporation.
36H Financial consequences of winding up.
Financial and related provisions
37 Advances and grants by Secretary of State to development corporation.
37AA Grants by Secretary of State to development corporation.
37A Other borrowing powers of development corporations.
38 Provisions supplementary to s. 37.
38A Treasury guarantees.
Financial reconstruction
38AB Power to extinguish loan obligations of development corporation.
38B Disposal of surplus funds of development corporations.
39 Accounts, audit, annual reports etc.
40 General provision as to expenses.
Miscellaneous and supplementary
41 Application of certain enactments.
42 Rights of entry.
43 Local inquiries.
44 Inquiries under Private Legislation Procedure (Scotland) Act 1936.
45 Service of notices.
46 Regulations and orders.
47 Interpretation.
48 Saving and transitional provisions, consequential amendments and repeals.
49 Short title, commencement and extent.
SCHEDULES
SCHEDULE 1 Procedure for designating site of new town
Making of orders under section 1
1(1) Where the Secretary of State proposes to make an...
2Before making the order the Secretary of State shall publish...
3If any objection is duly made to the proposed order...
4Subject to the provisions of paragraph 3 above, the Secretary...
5As soon as may be after an order has been...
Validity and date of operation of orders under section 1
6If any person aggrieved by an order under section 1...
7Subject to the provisions of paragraph 6 above, an order...
SCHEDULE 1A Effect of order for reduction of designated area
Disposal of Land
1(1) Subject to sub-paragraphs (2) to (4) below, and without...
SCHEDULE 2 Constitution and proceedings of development corporations
Apointment of members and tenure of office
1(1) The members of a development corporation (in this Schedule...
2Subject to the following provisions of this Schedule, a member...
3If the chairman or deputy chairman of the corporation ceases...
4Any member of the corporation may, by notice in writing...
5If the Secretary of State is satisfied that a member...
6A member of the corporation who ceases to be a...
Remuneration
7The corporation shall pay to their members, in respect of...
Pension benefits for chairmen
7AIn the case of any such person, who is or...
Meetings and proceedings
8The quorum of the corporation and the arrangements relating to...
9The validity of any proceeding of the corporation shall not...
Instruments, etc.
10The fixing of the seal of the corporation shall be...
11Any document purporting to be a document duly executed under...
SCHEDULE 3 Procedure for authorising compulsory acquisitions
Part I
Acquisitions by development corporations and local highway authorities
1(1) A compulsory purchase order made under this Act by...
2(1) After submitting the order to the Secretary of State,...
3Subject to the provisions of paragraph 4 below in any...
4(1) If any objection is duly made to the order...
5As soon as may be after the order has been...
6The Secretary of State may by regulations make provisions for...
Part II
Special provisions applying to acquisitions by local highway authorities
7(1) Subject to this paragraph, where a compulsory purchase order...
8Where there is submitted to the Secretary of State a...
Part III
Acquisitions by Secretary of State
9(1) A compulsory purchase order made under section 8(2) of...
10Where the Secretary of State proposes to make such an...
11Paragraphs 3, 4, 5, 7 and 8 above shall have...
Part IV
Special provisions as to certain descriptions of land
12In so far as a compulsory purchase order authorises the...
13(1) In so far as a compulsory purchase order authorises...
Part V
Validity and date of operation of compulsory purchase orders and certificates
14If any person aggrieved by a compulsory purchase order, or...
15Subject to the provisions of paragraph 14 above, a compulsory...
16This Part of this Schedule shall not apply to an...
SCHEDULE 4 Procedure for authorising compulsory acquisition of statutory undertakers’ operational land
Part I
Acquisitions by development corporations and local highway authorities
1An application by a development corporation or local roads authority...
2As soon as may be after submitting the application to...
3(1) If no objection is duly made by any of...
4A compulsory purchase order made on such an application shall...
5As soon as may be after a compulsory purchase order...
Part II
Acquisitions by Secretary of State and appropriate Minister
6A compulsory purchase order made by the Secretary of State...
7Where the Secretary of State and the appropriate Minister propose...
8Paragraphs 3 and 5 of this Schedule shall have effect...
Part III
Modification of Schedule 3, Part V in relation to compulsory purchase orders made in pursuance of s. 10
9Part V of Schedule 3 to this Act shall have...
SCHEDULE 5 Assessment of compensation to statutory undertakers
Part I
Measure of compensation
1(1) Where statutory undertakers are entitled to compensation as mentioned...
Exclusion of paragraph 1 at option of statutory undertakers
2(1) Where statutory undertakers are entitled to compensation in respect...
Procedure for assessing compensation where paragraph 1 applies
3Where the amount of any such compensation as is mentioned...
4In this Part of this Schedule, “the tribunal” means the...
Part II
Tribunal for assessment of compensation
5(1) The tribunal for the assessment of compensation referred to...
SCHEDULE 6 Modifications of enactments for purposes of this act
Part I
The Lands Clauses Acts
1(1) The following sections of the Lands Clauses Consolidation (Scotland)...
2For the purposes of section 116 of the Act of...
3The acquiring authority shall, without prejudice to any power in...
4(1) If the acquiring authority have, in respect of any...
5(1) The provisions of this paragraph shall have effect in...
6Notices required to be served by the acquiring authority may,...
Part II
The Land Compensation (Scotland) Act 1963
7The arbiter shall not take into account any interest in...
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SCHEDULE 7
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SCHEDULE 8 Procedure for dealing with objections to orders under ss 23, 28 and 30
1(1) In this Schedule “the relevant Minister” means—
2Unless the relevant Minister decides apart from the objection not...
3In so far as the relevant Minister, after considering the...
4If, after considering the grounds of the objection as set...
5Subject to paragraphs 3 and 4 above, the relevant Minister,...
6Notwithstanding anything in the foregoing provisions of this Schedule, if...
SCHEDULE 9 Saving and transitional provisions
1In so far as any order, regulation, certificate, declaration or...
2Without prejudice to paragraph 1 above, any provision of this...
3Notwithstanding anything in paragraph 1 or 2 above, any advance...
4Nothing in this Act shall affect the enactments repealed thereby...
5Where any Act (whether passed before, or in the same...
6(1) Notwithstanding section 8(3) of this Act, paragraph 12 of...
7Without prejudice to paragraph 5 above, the reference to section...
8Nothing in this Schedule shall be taken as prejudicing the...
SCHEDULE 10Consequential Amendments of Enactments
Rivers (Prevention of Pollution) (Scotland) Act 1951
In section 35(1), in the definition of “ local authority”,...
New Towns Act 1965
In section 43(b), for the words from “whether” to the...
SCHEDULE 11 Repeals

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New Towns (Scotland) Act 1968

1968 CHAPTER 16

An Act to consolidate certain enactments relating to new towns and to matters connected therewith, being those enactments in their application to Scotland; with corrections and improvements made under the Consolidation of Enactments (Procedure) Act 1949.