Local Employment Act 1972

1. Introductory Text

2. Development areas and intermediate areas

   1. 1. Designation of development areas and intermediate areas

3. Powers for provision of employment

   1. 2. Purpose for which powers exercisable and advisory committee

   2. 3. Building grants

   3. 4. General power to make loans and grants and to acquire shares

   4. 5. Provision of premises and sites

   5. 6. Removal and resettlement of workers

4. Powers for contributing to development of industry

   1. 7. Improvement of basic services

   2. 8. Derelict land

   3. 9. Grants for improvement work on derelict land begun before 5th March 1970

5. Industrial estates corporations

   1. 10. Constitution of the corporations

   2. 11. Functions of the corporations

   3. 12. Accounts and reports of the corporations

6. Miscellaneous powers

   1. 13. Powers in relation to Secretary of State's land

   2. 14. Powers where locality ceases to be development area, intermediate area or derelict land clearance area

   3. 15. Additional powers for safeguarding loans

7. Supplementary provisions

   1. 16. Compulsory purchase

   2. 17. Secretary of State's accounts and reports

   3. 18. Orders and regulations

   4. 19. Transitional provisions

   5. 20. Expenses and receipts

   6. 21. Interpretation

   7. 22. Consequential amendments, repeals and savings

   8. 23. Short title, commencement and extent

8. SCHEDULES

   1. SCHEDULE 1

      Industrial Estates Corporations

      1. Incorporation

         1. 1. Each corporation shall be a body corporate with perpetual succession...

      2. Members

         1. 2. Each corporation— (a) shall pay to each of its members,...

         2. 3. The Secretary of State shall lay before each House of...

      3. Staff

         1. 4. Each corporation may, subject to any limit of numbers which...

         2. 5. Each corporation shall— (a) pay to its officers and servants...

         3. 6. Where any officer or servant of any of the corporations,...

      4. Proceedings

         1. 7. The procedure of each corporation (including quorum) shall be such...

         2. 8. No act of any of the corporations shall be invalid...

      5. Interpretation

         1. 9. In this Schedule " pension ", in relation to a...

   2. SCHEDULE 2

      Transitional Provisions

      1. PART I Provisions relating to coming into force of Local Employment Act 1960

         1. Pension schemes of industrial estates companies

            1. 1. (1) The following provisions of this paragraph shall have effect...

         2. Land acquired under Distribution of Industry Acts 1945 to 1958

            1. 2. The Secretary of State shall have the like powers under...

         3. Loans and grants under Distribution of Industry Acts 1945 to 1958

            1. 3. (1) In section 15(1) of this Act the reference to...

      2. PART II Provisions relating to coming into force of Part II of Industrial Development Act 1966

         1. Development districts which did not become development areas

            1. 4. (1) This paragraph applies to any locality which was a...

         2. Re-naming of industrial estates corporations

            1. 5. In any enactment or instrument passed or made before 19th...

      3. PART III Provisions relating to coming into force of Local Employment Act 1970

         1. 6. No grant shall be made under section 3 of this...

      4. PART IV Provisions relating to coming into force of Investment and Building Grants Act 1971

         1. Building grants where contract or work was before 27th October 1970

            1. 7. (1) In the following circumstances the percentage in section 3(3)(b)...

         2. Building grants offered or made before 27th July 1971

            1. 8. (1) The provisions of this Act relating to building grants...

      5. PART V Other provisions

         1. 9. Any document executed before 23rd October 1969 by the Board...

         2. 10. As respects any time before the coming into force of...

   3. SCHEDULE 3

      Consequential amendments

      1. THE LANDLORD AND TENANT ACT 1954

      2. THE LOCAL EMPLOYMENT ACT 1960

      3. THE TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING ACT 1962

      4. THE HIGHLANDS AND ISLANDS DEVELOPMENT (SCOTLAND) ACT 1965

      5. THE BUILDING CONTROL ACT 1966

      6. THE INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT ACT 1966

      7. THE FINANCE ACT 1967

      8. THE DEVELOPMENT OF TOURISM ACT 1969

      9. THE FINANCE ACT 1970

      10. THE FINANCE ACT 1971

      11. THE HOUSING ACT 1971

      12. THE TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING ACT 1971

   4. SCHEDULE 4

      Repeals