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The Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980 (Commencement No. 1) Order 1980

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1980 No. 1871 (c. 79)

LOCAL GOVERNMENT, ENGLAND AND WALES

The Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980 (Commencement No. 1) Order 1980

Made

4th December 1980

Laid before Parliament

10th December 1980

Coming into Operation

31st December 1980

The Secretary of State for the Environment, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 94(2) of the Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980 and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following order:—

1.  This order may be cited as the Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980 (Commencement No. 1) Order 1980 and shall come into operation on 31st December 1980.

2.  Part X of the Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980 shall come into operation on 31st December 1980 in the areas of the district and London borough councils specified in the Schedule to this order.

Michael R. D. Heseltine

Secretary of State for the Environment

4th December 1980

SCHEDULE

  • Birmingham

  • Bradford

  • Bristol

  • Coventry

  • Dudley

  • Ealing

  • Gateshead

  • Leeds

  • Liverpool

  • Manchester

  • Middlesbrough

  • Newcastle-under-Lyme

  • Newcastle upon Tyne

  • Preston

  • Salford

  • Sefton

  • Stockport

  • Stoke

  • Trafford

  • Wandsworth

  • Wirral

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Order brings into operation Part X of the Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980 in certain areas. The Schedule to this order specifies the district and London borough councils in whose areas Part X of the Act of 1980 comes into operation, and the order specifies the date from which it operates in those areas. Part X of the Act provides for registers to be kept of land owned by public bodies, being land which is not being used or not being sufficiently used for the purposes of the performance of a public body's functions or of carrying on their undertaking. Part X also provides that the Secretary of State may direct the public body which own land on a register to take steps to dispose of it.

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