The Derelict Land Clearance Areas Order 1982

Made: 8th July 1982

Laid before Parliament: 9th July 1982

Coming into Operation: 1st August 1982

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 8(6) and (7) of the Local Employment Act 1972 and now vested in him[^f00001], hereby makes the following Order:—

1

This Order may be cited as the Derelict Land Clearance Areas Order 1982 and shall come into operation on 1st August 1982.

2

The employment office areas described in the Schedule to this Order are hereby specified as derelict land clearance areas for the purposes of the Local Employment Act 1972.

SCHEDULE — NEW DERELICT LAND CLEARANCE AREAS

The employment office areas of—

• Accrington

• Alfreton

• Altrincham

• Ashton-Under-Lyne

• Bamber Bridge

• Barnoldswick

• Barrow-in-Furness

• Batley

• Bedworth

• Berwick-on-Tweed

• Beswick

• Blackburn

• Bramley

• Brighouse

• Burnley

• Bury

• Buxton

• Carlisle

• Castleford

• Chapeltown

• Chester

• Chesterfield

• Chorley

• Clay Cross

• Clitheroe

• Colne

• Congleton

• Crewe

• Crossgates

• Darwen

• Denton

• Dewsbury

• Didsbury

• Dinnington

• Dronfield

• Droylsden

• Eccles

• Eckington

• Elland

• Failsworth

• Firth Park

• Glossop

• Great Harwood

• Halifax

• Haltwhistle

• Heanor

• Hemsworth

• Hexham

• Heywood

• Horsforth

• Huddersfield

• Hunslet

• Hyde

• Irlam

• Keighley

• Knottingley

• Leeds

• Leyland

• Longsight

• Macclesfield

• Manchester

• Marple

• Middleton

• Morley

• Mossley

• Moss Side

• Nantwich

• Nelson

• New Mills

• Newton Heath

• Newton-Le-Willows

• Normanton

• Nuneaton

• Oldham and Chadderton

• Ormskirk

• Otley

• Padiham

• Pontefract

• Preston

• Prestwich

• Radcliffe

• Rothwell

• Royton

• Salford

• Sandbach

• Seacroft

• Sheffield

• Skelmersdale (excluding that part which lies within the designated area of Skelmersdale New Town[^f00002])

• South Elmsall

• Sowerby Bridge

• Spen Valley

• Stalybridge

• Staveley

• Stockport

• Stretford

• Sutton-in-Ashfield

• Swinton

• Todmorden

• Ulverston

• Wakefield

• Warrington

• Wetherby

• Wilmslow

• Woodhouse

• Worksop

• Worsley

• Wythenshawe

• Yeadon

Signed

Patrick Jenkin — Secretary of State for Industry — 8th July 1982

Explanatory note

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Order specifies as derelict land clearance areas the employment office areas set out in the Schedule.

Employment office areas are areas specified by the Manpower Services Commission as areas for each of which a specified office of the Commission exercises functions (see s. 1(4) of the Local Employment Act 1972 as amended by paragraph 12 of Schedule 3 to the Employment and Training Act 1973 (c. 50) and paragraph 6 of Part II of Schedule 2 to the Employment and Training Act 1981 (c. 57)).

Footnotes

[^f00001]: See articles 2(3) and 5(5) of the Secretary of State (New Departments) Order 1974 (S.I. 1974/692).

[^f00002]: See the Skelmersdale New Town (Designation) Order 1961 (S.I. 1961/1918) as amended by S.I. 1969/127.