The Recreation Grounds (Revocation of Parish Council Byelaws) Order 1999

Statutory Instruments

1999 No. 1227

LOCAL GOVERNMENT, ENGLAND AND WALES

The Recreation Grounds (Revocation of Parish Council Byelaws) Order 1999

Made

26th April 1999

Laid before Parliament

5th May 1999

Coming into force

30th May 1999

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by section 262(8)(d) of the Local Government Act 1972(1), hereby makes the following Order:

1.  This Order may be cited as the Recreation Grounds (Revocation of Parish Council Byelaws) Order 1999 and shall come into force on 30th May 1999.

2.  The byelaws mentioned in the left-hand column of the Schedule to this Order, made with respect to the recreation grounds and other areas named or described in the right-hand column of that Schedule, are hereby revoked.

George Howarth

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State

Home Office

26th April 1999

Article 2

SCHEDULE

Parish Council byelaws	Name or description of recreation ground or other area
Byelaws made by the Parish Council of Ardingly on 24th November 1958	Ardingly Recreation Ground
Byelaws made by the Parish Council of Ash of 2nd May 1955	Ash Recreation Ground
Byelaws made by the Parish Council of Dursley on 1st October 1963	The open space known as Twinberrow Woods (formerly known as Little Bolton and Gravel Pit Woods) in the Parish of Dursley; the Dursley War Memorial Recreation Ground, situate at Kingshill Road, in the said Parish of Dursley
Byelaws made by the Parish Council of Dibden on 6th March 1972	Ewart Recreation Ground; Shore Road Playing Field; Noadsway Playing Field; Forest Front Open Space and Langdown Lawn Open Space
Byelaws made by Kingsclere Parish Council on 23rd March 1953	Ashford Hill Recreation Ground

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order revokes the byelaws specified in the Schedule to the Order, which were made in exercise of the powers conferred on parish councils by section 8(1)(d) of the Local Government Act 1894 (56 and 57 Vict. c. 73). The relevant part of that section was repealed by section 272(1) of, and Schedule 30 to, the Local Government Act 1972. The byelaws continued in force notwithstanding the repeal by virtue of section 262(1) of the 1972 Act. The byelaws are revoked as being substantially superseded by byelaws made under other enactments.

(1)

1972 c. 70.