4 Designation of assisted areas.U.K.
In section 1 of the M1Industrial 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(12) of the M2Derelict Land Act 1982 shall affect any orders made under section 1(7) of that Act before the substitution takes effect.