The Crime Prevention (Designated Areas) Order 2003

Statutory Instruments

2003 No. 2208

HIGHWAYS, ENGLAND

The Crime Prevention (Designated Areas) Order 2003

Made

27th August 2003

Laid before Parliament

29th August 2003

Coming into force

22nd September 2003

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred upon her by section 118B(1)(a) of the Highways Act 1980(1), hereby makes the following Order:

Citation, commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Crime Prevention (Designated Areas) Order 2003 and shall come into force on 22nd September 2003.

Interpretation

2.  In this Order, “the maps” means the maps numbered 1 to 52 and each entitled “Map referred to in the Crime Prevention (Designated Areas) Order 2003”, of which prints signed on behalf of the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs are deposited and available for inspection at the offices of—

(a) the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs; and

(b) in the case of any one such map, the highway authority for the area hatched and edged red on that map.

Designated areas

3.  The areas hatched and edged red on the maps are hereby designated for the purposes of section 118B of the Highways Act 1980.

Alun Michael

Minister of State

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

27th August 2003

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

Sections 118B and 119B of the Highways Act 1980 (inserted by paragraphs 8 and 12 of Schedule 6 to the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000) enable a council (which is a highway authority), for the purposes of crime prevention, to make orders for the stopping up or diversion of certain highways within areas designated by the Secretary of State under section 118B(1)(a) of the 1980 Act.

This Order designates areas under section 118B(1)(a) of the 1980 Act. These areas are within—

• the cities of Bradford, Manchester, Salford, and

• the boroughs of Dudley, Halton, Knowsley, Milton Keynes, Redcar and Cleveland, Rochdale, Rotherham, Walsall,

and are shown hatched and edged red on 52 maps which are deposited and available for inspection at all reasonable times at the offices of—

(a) the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs at Zone 1/01,Temple Quay House, 2 The Square, Temple Quay, Bristol BS1 6EB; and

(b) the highway authority for a designated area.

(1)

1980 c. 66; section 118B was inserted by the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 (c. 37), Schedule 6, paragraph 8.