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New Towns Act 1981
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77 Regulations and orders.E+W
(1)The Secretary of State may make regulations for the purpose of prescribing anything which is authorised or required to be prescribed under this Act.
(2)Regulations under this Act shall be made by statutory instrument, which shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.
(3)The power to make orders under sections 1, 2, [F139] 40 to 42 [F2and 60][F260, 62A and 62B] above F3... is exercisable by statutory instrument, . . . F4
[F5(3A)Any provision of this Act conferring a power to make orders (whether exercisable by statutory instrument or otherwise), except section 40, implies a power exercisable in the same manner and subject to the same conditions or limitations, to revoke or amend any instrument made under the power.]
(4)A statutory instrument containing an order under [F6any of the following provisions of] this Act is subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament [F7that is to say —
(a)an order under section 1 where]—
(i)the order is one designating an area as the site of a proposed new town, or one designating an additional area of not less than 500 acres which would extend the area of a new town by not less than 10 per cent., and
(ii)an objection to the order was duly made by a county planning authority [F8or, where the order is one designating an area in Wales, by the local planning authority] and had not been withdrawn at the time the order was made; or
(b)[F9an order] under section 2 [F1042 or 62B(1)].
(5). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F11
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F1Words inserted by New Towns and Urban Development Corporations Act 1985 (c. 5, SIF 123:3, 4), s. 14(1), Sch. 3 para. 12(1)(a)
F2 “60, 62A and 62B” substituted (E.W.) for “and 60” by New Towns and Urban Development Corporations Act 1985 (c. 5, SIF 123:3, 4), s. 8(2)
F3Words in s. 77(3) repealed (1.4.2009) by Housing and Regeneration Act 2008 (c. 17), s. 325(1), Sch. 5 para. 27, Sch. 16; S.I. 2009/803, arts. 3(1), 10
F4Words repealed by New Towns and Urban Development Corporations Act 1985 (c. 5, SIF 123:3, 4), s. 14(1)(2), Sch. 3 para. 12(c), Sch. 4
F5S. 77(3A) inserted by New Towns and Urban Development Corporations Act 1985 (c. 5, SIF 123:3, 4), s. 14(1), Sch. 3 para. 12(2)
F6Words inserted by New Towns and Urban Development Corporations Act 1985 (c. 5, SIF 123:3, 4), s. 14(1), Sch. 3 para. 12(3)(a)
F7Words substituted by New Towns and Urban Development Corporations Act 1985 (c. 5, SIF 123:3, 4), s. 14(1), Sch. 3 para. 12(3)(b)
F8Words in s. 77(4)(a)(ii) inserted (1.4.1996) by 1994 c. 19, s. 66(6), Sch. 16 para. 63(8) (with ss. 54(5)(7), 55(5), Sch. 17 paras. 22(1), 23(2)); S.I. 1996/396, art. 4, Sch. 2
F9Words substituted by New Towns and Urban Development Corporations Act 1985 (c. 5, SIF 123:3, 4), s. 14(1), Sch. 3 para. 12(3)(c)
F10Words substituted by New Towns and Urban Development Corporations Act 1985 (c. 5, SIF 123:3, 4), s. 8(2)(b)
F11S. 77(5) repealed by New Towns and Urban Development Corporations Act 1985 (c. 5, SIF 123:3, 4), s. 14(2), Sch. 4
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