The Gipsy Encampments (City of Lancaster) Order 1987

Statutory Instruments

1987 No. 556

PUBLIC HEALTH, ENGLAND AND WALES

The Gipsy Encampments (City of Lancaster) Order 1987

Made

26th March 1987

Laid before Parliament

2nd April 1987

Coming into force

23rd April 1987

Whereas it appears to the Secretary of State that adequate provision is made in the area of the City of Lancaster for the accommodation of gipsies residing in or resorting to that area:

Now, therefore, the Secretary of State on the joint application of the councils of the County of Lancashire and the City of Lancaster, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 12(2) of the Caravan Sites Act 1968(1), and now vested in him(2), and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following order:—

1.  This Order may be cited as the Gipsy Encampments (City of Lancaster) Order 1987 and shall come into force on 23rd April 1987.

2.  The area of the City of Lancaster is designated as an area to which section 10 (prohibition of unauthorised camping in designated areas) of the Caravan Sites Act 1968 applies.

Nicholas Ridley

Secretary of State for the Environment

26th March 1987

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order designates the City of Lancaster as an area to which section 10 of the Caravan Sites Act 1968 applies.

It is an offence within a designated area for a gipsy to station a caravan for the purpose of residing for any period on any land within the boundaries of a highway, or on any other unoccupied land, or on any occupied land without the consent of the occupier.

Under section 11 of the Act (substituted by section 174 of the Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980), unlawfully stationed caravans and their occupants may be removed by order of a magistrates' court.

(1)

1968 c. 52; section 12 was substituted by section 175 of the Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980 (c. 65).

(2)

S.I. 1970/1681.