Co-operative Development Agency and Industrial Development Act 1984

PART II Assisted Areas and Regional Development Grants

4 Designation of assisted areas

In section 1 of the [1982 c. 52.] Industrial Development Act 1982, for subsection (4) (which enables orders under the section to describe the assisted areas by reference to employment office areas) there shall be substituted the following subsection—

“(4) An order under this section may describe a development area, intermediate area or, as the case may be, special development area by reference to any of the following kinds of area or any combination of those areas, that is to say—

(a) wards;

(b) travel to work areas (being areas by reference to which the Secretary of State publishes unemployment statistics

(c) any other area which has been created by, or exists or existed for the purposes of, any Act or statutory instrument (whenever passed or made) ;

and any order under this section may provide for any reference in the order to any named area or combination of areas to be construed as a reference to that area or combination of areas as it or they existed on a date specified in the order.”

This section has effect subject to any provision of the commencement order under section 7(1)(b) below with respect to any description of financial assistance dependent on the designation of areas under the said section 1 and, without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing words, nothing in the substitution effected by this section in its application to section 1(10) of the [1982 c. 42.] Derelict Land Act 1982 shall affect any orders made under section 1(7) of that Act before the substitution takes effect.

5 New scheme of regional development grants

(1) Subject to subsection (3) below, and to any provision of the commencement order under section 7(1)(b) below, the provisions for the making of regional development grants set Out in Part I of Schedule 1 to this Act shall be substituted for Part II of the [1982 c. 52.] Industrial Development Act 1982.

(2) The enactments specified in Part II of that Schedule shall have effect subject to the amendments specified in that Part, being amendments consequential on the substitution effected by subsection (1) above.

(3) On the occasion of the first exercise of the power to make an order under paragraph (b), (c) or (d) of section 5(1) of the Industrial Development Act 1982 as substituted by subsection (1) above subsection (4) below shall apply instead of paragraph (b) of subsection (8) of that section.

(4) Where this subsection applies in relation to an order, the instrument containing the order shall be laid before Parliament after being made and, unless the order is approved by resolution of each House of Parliament before the end of the period of 40 days beginning with the date on which it was made, it shall cease to have effect at the end of that period, but without prejudice to anything previously done under it or to the making of a new order.

(5) In reckoning for the purposes of subsection (4) above any period of 40 days no account shall be taken of any period during which Parliament is dissolved or prorogued or during which both Houses of Parliament are adjourned for more than 4 days.

(6) There shall be paid out of money provided by Parliament any grants under the provisions substituted by subsection (1) above; and any receipts of the Secretary of State under those provisions shall be paid into the Consolidated Fund.