The Recreation Grounds (Revocation of Parish Council Byelaws) Order 2000

Statutory Instruments

2000 No. 2884

LOCAL GOVERNMENT, ENGLAND AND WALES

The Recreation Grounds (Revocation of Parish Council Byelaws) Order 2000

Made

23rd October 2000

Laid before Parliament

30th October 2000

Coming into force

20th November 2000

Whereas it appears to the Secretary of State that the byelaws listed in the Schedule to this Order have been substantially superseded by instruments which apply to the area to which the byelaws apply:

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

1.  This Order may be cited as the Recreation Grounds (Revocation of Parish Council Byelaws) Order 2000 and shall come into force on 20th November 2000.

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.

Mike O'Brien

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State

Home Office

23rd October 2000

Article 2

SCHEDULE

Parish Council Byelaws	Name or description of recreation ground or other area
Byelaws made by Buntingford Parish Council on 15th February 1973	Layston Court Public Gardens; the Playing Fields, Norfolk Road; the Children’s Playground, Hare Street Road, Buntingford
Byelaws made by Hound Parish Council on 8th August 1955	Station Road Recreation Grounds
Byelaws made by Hound Parish Council on 4th June 1956	Butlocks Heath Recreation Grounds, Butlocks Heath; The Castle Recreation Grounds, Victoria Road, Netley Abbey; King George V Recreation Grounds, Old Netley
Byelaws made by Hound Parish Council on 17th February 1969	Station Road Recreation Grounds; Butlocks Heath Recreation Grounds, Butlocks Heath; The Castle Recreation Grounds, Victoria Road, Netley Abbey; King George V Recreation Grounds, Old Netley
Byelaws made by Lamberhurst Parish Council on 27th May 1953	The Village Green; the common or manor ground known as “The Down”; the common or manor ground known as “Hook Green”; the common or manor ground known as “Free Heath”
Byelaws made by Nursling and Rownhams Parish Council on 14th April 1953	The recreation ground at Nursling Street, Nursling
Byelaws made by Stratton St Margaret Parish Council on 14th December 1957	The recreation ground at Meadowcroft, Upper Stratton
Byelaws made by the Parish Council of Tavistock on 27th July 1971	The pleasure ground known as “The Meadows”
Byelaws made by the Parish Council of Wicken on 24th March 1897	The 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.