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NEW TOWNS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1965 - SECT 7

7.(1) Where an order is made under section 1 with respect to a proposed new
town, the Minister may by order establish a body (in this Act referred to as a
"new town commission") to

(a)secure the laying out and development of the new town in accordance with
proposals approved by the Ministry in that behalf under the succeeding
provisions of this Act (in this Act referred to as "development functions");
and

(b)exercise such further functions as may be conferred upon the
new town commission by virtue of an order made under section 28 (in this Act
referred to as "municipal functions").

(2) The provisions of Schedule 4 shall have effect with respect to each
new town commission.

Subs.(3) rep. by 1975 c.25 s.5(2) sch.3 Pt.II

[(4) Sections 28 to 33, 42, 46, 47 and 146 of the Local Government Act
(Northern Ireland) 1972, and section 148 of that Act so far as it applies for
the interpretation of those sections, shall apply to a new town commission and
their members and officers as if

(a)in those sections any reference to a council were a reference to a
new town commission, any reference to a councillor were a reference to a
member of a new town commission and any reference to the clerk of a council
were a reference to the general manager of a new town commission or such other
officer (if any) of a new town commission as the Ministry may specify;

(b)in section 28(4) of that Act for the words from "by any local elector"
onwards there were substituted the words "by any person".]

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