Statutory Instruments

1989 No. 1392

URBAN DEVELOPMENT

The London Docklands Development Corporation (Vesting of Land) (Thames Water Authority) Order 1989

Approved by both Houses of Parliament

Made

7th June 1989

Laid before Parliament

14th June 1989

Coming into force

20th July 1989

The Secretary of State for the Environment, being also the appropriate Minister for the purposes of section 141(3) of the Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980(1), in exercise of the powers conferred by section 141(1) and (3) of that Act, and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the London Docklands Development Corporation (Vesting of Land) (Thames Water Authority) Order 1989 and shall come into force on the day after the day on which it is approved by resolution of each House of Parliament.

Interpretation

2.—(1) In this Order—

“the Corporation” means the London Docklands Development Corporation;

“statutory undertakers” does not include any statutory undertakers in relation to whom the Secretary of State for the Environment is not the appropriate Minister;

“urban development area” means the area designated as an urban development area by the London Docklands Development Corporation (Area and Constitution) Order 1980(2).

(2) Any reference in this Order to “the map” is a reference to the map entitled “Map referred to in the London Docklands Development Corporation (Vesting of Land) (Thames Water Authority) Order 1989”, of which prints, signed by an Under Secretary in the Department of the Environment, are deposited and available for inspection at the offices of the Secretary of State for the Environment, the Thames Water Authority, the council of the London borough of Newham and the Corporation.

(3) Any reference in this Order to land shown on the map is a reference to that land shown coloured black on the map.

Vesting of Land

3.  The land described in the Schedule hereto and now vested in the Thames Water Authority or in a local authority or other statutory undertakers or public body or in a subsidiary of any of them, being land within the urban development area, is hereby vested in the Corporation.

Easements and rights in or over land

4.  All existing easements and rights in or over other land within the urban development area which are vested in an authority or body mentioned in article 3 above, and which are annexed or appurtenant to land vested by that article or any part thereof, are hereby vested in the Corporation.

Nicholas Ridley

Secretary of State for the Environment

7th June 1989