Distribution of Industry Act 1945
1945 Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom
The Distribution of Industry Act 1945 (8 & 9 Geo. 6. c. 36) was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom intended to help redevelop areas, such as south-western Scotland, which depended heavily on specific heavy industries, and which had been hard-hit by unemployment in the inter-war period.
Sections 6, 9 and 10 were repealed, as to England and Wales, by section 113(1) of, and part II of the ninth Schedule to, the Town and Country Planning Act 1947 (10 & 11 Geo. 6. c. 51). Sections 6, 9 and 10 were repealed, as to Scotland, by section 109 of, and part II of the ninth schedule to, the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1947 (10 & 11 Geo. 6.
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