The Black Country Development Corporation (Vesting of Land) (Central Electricity Generating Board) Order 1988

Made: 1st July 1988

Laid before Parliament: 4th July 1988

Coming into force: 26th July 1988

The Secretary of State for the Environment and the Secretary of State for Energy, being the appropriate Minister for the purposes of section 141(3) of the Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980[^f00001], in exercise of the powers conferred by section 141(1) and (3) of that Act, and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Order:

Citation and commencement

1

This Order may be cited as the Black Country Development Corporation (Vesting of Land) (Central Electricity Generating Board) Order 1988 and shall come into force on the day after the day on which it is approved by resolution of each House of Parliament.

Interpretation

2

• (1) In this Order—

• “the Corporation” means the Black Country Development Corporation;

• “statutory undertakers” does not include any statutory undertakers in relation to whom neither the Secretary of State for the Environment nor the Secretary of State for Energy is the appropriate Minister;

• “urban development area” means the area designated as an urban development area by the Black Country Development Corporation (Area and Constitution) Order 1987[^f00002].

• (2) Any reference in this Order to a map followed immediately by a number is a reference to the map so numbered in the set of maps numbered 1 to 2 entitled “Maps referred to in the Black Country Development Corporation (Vesting of Land) (Central Electricity Generating Board) Order 1988”, of which prints, signed by an Under Secretary in the Department of the Environment are deposited and available for inspection at the offices of the Secretary of State for the Environment, the Secretary of State for Energy, the Central Electricity Generating Board, the council of the borough of Sandwell and the Corporation.

• (3) Any reference in this Order to a numbered plot is a reference to the plot so numbered and shown bounded externally with a black line and edged internally with a stippled band on a numbered map.

Vesting of Land

3

The land described in the Schedule hereto, and now vested in the Central Electricity Generating Board or any local authority or other statutory undertakers or public body or in a subsidiary of any of them, being land within the urban development area, is hereby vested in the Corporation.

Easements and rights in or over land

4

All existing easements and rights in or over other land within the urban development area which are vested in an authority or body mentioned in article 3 above, and which are annexed or appurtenant to land vested by that article or any part thereof, are hereby vested in the Corporation.

THE SCHEDULE — LAND VESTED IN THE CORPORATION

Signed

Nicholas Ridley — Secretary of State for the Environment — 28th June 1988

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State

Michael Spicer — Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, — Department of Energy — 1st July 1988

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order vests in the Black Country Development Corporation certain land which is at present vested in the Central Electricity Generating Board, or any local authority or other body mentioned in section 141(1) of the Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980, and related easements and similar rights. The land is shown coloured black on the map forming part of this note.

The land and rights are in the area designated by the Black Country Development Corporation (Area and Constitution) Order 1987, which establishes the Black Country Development Corporation.

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Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1980 c. 65; as to “appropriate Minister” see section 170(3).

[^f00002]: S.I. 1987/922.