Nothing in the foregoing provisions of this Part of this Act or in Part VIII below—
shall authorise the disposal of any land by a local authority in breach of any trust, covenant or agreement which is binding upon them, excluding any trust arising solely by reason of the land being held as public walks or pleasure grounds or in accordance with section 10 of the Open Spaces Act 1906; or
shall affect, or empower a local authority to act otherwise than in accordance with, any provision contained in, or in any instrument made under, any of the enactments specified in subsection (2) below and relating to any dealing in land by a local authority or the application of capital money arising from any such dealing.
The enactments referred to in subsection (1)(b) above are—
the Technical and Industrial Institutions Act 1892;
the Military Lands Acts 1892 to 1903;
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the Allotments Acts 1908 to 1950;
the Small Holdings and Allotments Acts 1908 to 1931;
the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979
section 28 of the Land Settlement (Facilities) Act 1919;
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Part III of the Agriculture Act 1970; and
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any local Act (including an Act confirming a provisional order).
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the Housing Act 1985; and
Part 2 of the Historic Environment (Wales) Act 2023.
Nothing in the foregoing provisions of this Part of this Act shall affect the operation of sections 117 to 121 of the Charities Act 2011 (restrictions on dispositions of charity land) and, in particular, none of those provisions shall be treated as giving any such authority for a transaction as is referred to in section 117(3)(a) (certain statutorily authorised dispositions not to require the sanction of the Charity Commission).
In this section "local authority" includes a parish meeting and the parish trustees of a parish.