Local Employment Act 1970

1 Intermediate areas and functions exercisable in relation thereto

(1) Where the Minister of Technology (in this Act referred to as " the Minister ") is of opinion, with respect to a locality in Great Britain, that special measures are necessary for the purpose of encouraging the growth and proper distribution of industry therein, but that the economic problems thereof are not so acute that all the powers conferred by Part I of the [1960 c. 18.] Local Employment Act 1960 and by the [1966 c. 34.] Industrial Development Act 1966 in relation to development areas need be available for use in relation to the locality in order that that purpose may be achieved, he may specify it by order as an intermediate area.

(2) Subject to subsection (3) of this section, the functions under Part I of the Local Employment Act 1960 of the Minister, the Secretary of State, the Minister in charge of a Government department, the Board of Trade and the Industrial Estates Corporations (except the power of the Minister under section 4 of that Act to make loans or grants to undertakings in development areas) and the functions under Part II of the Industrial Development Act 1966 of the Minister, the Minister of Housing and Local Government, the Secretary of State and the Industrial Estates Corporations shall be exercisable in relation to intermediate areas, former intermediate areas, and land therein, as they are exercisable in relation to development areas, former development areas, and land therein.

(3) No grant shall be made, by virtue of this section, under section 3 of the Local Employment Act 1960 (building grants), towards the expenditure incurred in providing a building or extension in an intermediate area, in a case where any work on providing that building or extension, being work undertaken by or on behalf of the applicant, was done on the site before 25th June 1969; nor, where any work on providing a building or extension intended for occupation by an undertaking was so done, shall a grant be so made under that section in respect of a purchase of that building or extension for occupation by that undertaking.

(4) In the application, by virtue of this section, of Part I of the Local Employment Act 1960 and Part II of the Industrial Development Act 1966 to intermediate areas, former intermediate areas, and land therein, for the fallowing references to a development area, that is to say, those in sections 1(1), 2, 3(1), 6(1), 7(1) and 14(2) of the first-mentioned Act and in sections 17(1), 19(4), 20(1) and 21(4) of the last-mentioned Act and the first reference in section 15(7) of the last-mentioned Act, there shall be substituted references to an intermediate area.

(5) Where the Minister by order specifies, under subsection (1) above, as an intermediate area a locality that immediately before the order was made was a development area in which, by virtue of section 15(6) of the Industrial Development Act 1966, another locality fell to be treated as being included for the purposes of the provisions of the Local Employment Act 1960 and Part II of the first-mentioned Act, that other locality shall be treated for the purposes of those provisions as being included in the specified area.

(6) In section 1(1) of the [1960 c. 18.] Local Employment Act 1960 and sections 15(7) and 21(4) of the [1966 c. 34.] Industrial Development Act 1966, as those provisions apply, by virtue of this section, to intermediate areas or former intermediate areas, references to section 4 of the first-mentioned Act (power of the Minister to make loans or grants to undertakings in development areas) and to assistance under that section shall be omitted.