Citation and commencement
1. This Order may be cited as the Housing (Right to Acquire or Enfranchise) (Designated Rural Areas in the East) Order 1997 and shall come into force on 1st April 1997.
Designated rural areas
2. The following areas shall be designated rural areas for the purposes of section 17 of the Housing Act 1996 (the right to acquire) and section 1AA(3)(a) of the Leasehold Reform Act 1967 (additional right to enfranchise)—
(a)those parishes in the counties of Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Derbyshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Norfolk, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire and Suffolk specified in Schedule 1 to this Order;
(b)those areas in the parishes and the unparished areas in the counties of Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Derbyshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Norfolk, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire and Suffolk specified in Schedule 2 to this Order each shown bounded with a black line and cross hatched on one of the one hundred and fifty one maps entitled “Maps referred to in the Housing (Right to Acquire or Enfranchise) (Designated Rural Areas in the East) Order 1997” of which prints, signed by a member of the Senior Civil Service in the Department of the Environment, are deposited and available for inspection at the offices of the Secretary of State for the Environment; and
(c)the parish of Holbeach in the county of Lincolnshire with the exception of the non-cross hatched area shown bounded with a black line on one of the one hundred and fifty one maps entitled “Maps referred to in the Housing (Right to Acquire or Enfranchise) (Designated Rural Areas in the East) Order 1997” of which prints, signed by a member of the Senior Civil Service in the Department of the Environment, are deposited and available for inspection at the offices of the Secretary of State for the Environment.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State
David Curry
Minister of State,
Department of the Environment
5th March 1997