The Housing (Right to Acquire or Enfranchise) (Designated Rural Areas) Order 1999

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.  This Order may be cited as the Housing (Right to Acquire or Enfranchise) (Designated Rural Areas) Order 1999 and shall come into force on 3rd June 1999.

Designation of rural areas

2.  There are designated as rural areas for the purposes of section 1AA(3)(a) of the Leasehold Reform Act 1967 (additional right to enfranchise) and section 17 of the Housing Act 1996 (the right to acquire)–

(a) the parishes named in the second column of Part I of the Schedule in the counties named in the first column, and

(b) the areas described in Part II of the Schedule and more particularly shown bounded by a black line and cross hatched on one of the maps entitled “Map referred to in the Housing (Right to Acquire or Enfranchise) (Designated Rural Areas) Order 1999” of which prints, signed by a member of the Senior Civil Service in the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions, are deposited and available for inspection at the offices of the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions.

Revocation of designation for certain areas

3.  The references to the following parishes are deleted–

(a) in Schedule 1 to the Housing (Right to Acquire or Enfranchise) (Designated Rural Areas in the East) Order 1997(1), in Part III (Derbyshire) “Dronfield” and in Schedule 2 to that Order, in Part VI (Leicestershire) “Ashby Woulds” and “Oakethorpe and Donisthorpe”;

(b) in Schedule 1 to the Housing (Right to Acquire or Enfranchise) (Designated Rural Areas in the North East) Order 1997(2), in Part IX (Northumberland) “Tosson” and in Schedule 2 to that Order, in Part VI (Northumberland) “Broomley and Stocksfield”;

(c) in Schedule 2 to the Housing (Right to Acquire or Enfranchise) (Designated Rural Areas in the South West) Order 1997(3), in Part V (Devon) “Buckland Monachorum”,

and any parish or other area which ceases accordingly to be specified in any of those Orders ceases to be designated for the purposes specified in article 2 of this Order so far as it is not otherwise designated by that article.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions

Hilary Armstrong

Minister of State,

Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions

6th May 1999