London Docklands Development Corporation Act 1994

23 Saving for Billingsgate Market

(1) In this section—

• “the Act of 1979” means the [1979 c. xxiv.] City of London (Various Powers) Act 1979;

• “the Billingsgate Market Acts” has the meaning given by section 10 of the Act of 1979;

• “the false quays” means the quays forming part of or adjoining the market, the boundaries of which are shown edged red on the plan marked “False Quays”, of which copies have been signed on behalf of the Corporation by Robert Gerald Broomfield, the Corporation Solicitor, and on behalf of the city corporation by Samuel Jones, the Town Clerk, and deposited respectively in—

  (a)

  the office of the Clerk of the Parliaments, House of Lords;

  (b)

  the Private Bill Office of the House of Commons;

  (c)

  the Department of the Environment; and

  (d)

  the office of the City Remembrancer at Guildhall in the city of London; and

• “the market” means Billingsgate Market as established at Trafalgar Way, West India Dock in the London borough of Tower Hamlets pursuant to the Act of 1979 and to the Billingsgate Market Acts, the limits of the market as respects West India Dock aforesaid being shown on the signed plan referred to in section 10 of the Act of 1979.

(2) Byelaws made under this Act shall not be enforceable in respect of the market without the consent in writing of the city corporation:

Provided that this subsection shall not apply to—

(a) any land which after the passing of this Act ceases to be used for the purposes of the market; or

(b) the land (including the waters and airspace) beneath the false quays.