The Bristol Development Corporation (Transfer of Property, Rights and Liabilities) Order 1995

Statutory Instruments

1995 No. 2900

URBAN DEVELOPMENT

The Bristol Development Corporation (Transfer of Property, Rights and Liabilities) Order 1995

Made

7th November 1995

Laid before Parliament

16th November 1995

Coming into force

19th December 1995

The Secretary of State for the Environment, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 165A of the Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980(1) and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, having consulted the councils of the County of Avon and the City of Bristol, hereby makes the following Order—

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Bristol Development Corporation (Transfer of Property, Rights and Liabilities) Order 1995 and shall come into force on 19th December 1995.

Transfer of property, rights and liabilities

2.  There are hereby transferred to the Secretary of State any property, rights and liabilities vested for the time being in the Bristol Development Corporation which have not been transferred under—

(a) an agreement made under section 165 of the Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980(2); or

(b) article 4 of the Bristol Development Corporation (Planning Functions) Order 1995(3).

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for the Environment

David Curry

Minister of State,

Department of the Environment

7th November 1995

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order transfers to the Secretary of State any residual property, rights and liabilities of the Bristol Development Corporation. It is proposed that the Bristol Development Corporation will be dissolved on 1st April 1996.

(1)

1980 c. 65; section 165A was inserted by section 180(2) of the Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993 (c. 28).

(2)

Section 165 was amended by section 180 of the Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993.

(3)

S.I. 1995/2899.