Housing and Planning Act 1986

25 (1) The [1982 c. 52.] Industrial Development Act 1982 is amended as follows.

(2) In section 14 (power of Secretary of State to provide premises and sites), in subsection (2) (restriction on acquisition of buildings) for " section 66 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1971 " substitute " section 14A of this Act ".

(3) After that section insert—

“14A Meaning of' industrial buildings'.

(1) In section 14(2) of this Act "industrial building " means a building which is used or designed for use for carrying on, in the course of a trade or business, a process for or incidental to any of the following purposes—

(a) the making of any article or part of any article,

(b) the altering, repairing, ornamenting, finishing, cleaning, washing, freezing, packing or canning, or adapting for sale, or breaking up or demolition, of any article, or

(c) the getting, dressing or preparation for sale of minerals or the extraction or preparation for sale of oil or brine,

or which is used or designed for use for carrying on, in the course of a trade or business, scientific research.

(2) For the purposes of subsection (1) premises which—

(a) are used or designed for use for providing services or facilities ancillary to the use of other premises for the carrying on of any such process or research as is mentioned in that subsection, and

(b) are or are to be comprised in the same building or the same curtilage as those other premises,

shall themselves be treated as used or designed for use for the carrying on of such a process or, as the case may be, of such research.

(3) In this section—

• ' article' means an article of any description, including a ship or vessel;

• ' building' includes part of a building ;

• ' minerals ˜ includes all minerals and substances in or under land of a kind ordinarily worked for removal by underground or surface working, except that it does not include peat cut for purposes other than sale ;

• ' scientific research' means any activity in the fields of natural or applied science for the extension of knowledge.”.