The Black Country Development Corporation (Vesting of Land) (British Steel Corporation) Order 1988

Made: 23rd June 1988

Laid before Parliament: 29th June 1988

Coming into force: 26th July 1988

The Secretary of State for the Environment and the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, 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) (British Steel Corporation) 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 Trade and Industry 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 “the map” is a reference to the map entitled “Map referred to in the Black Country Development Corporation (Vesting of Land) (British Steel Corporation) 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 Trade and Industry, the British Steel Corporation, the council of the borough of Sandwell and the Corporation.

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

Vesting of land

3

The land described in the Schedule hereto, and now vested in the British Steel Corporation 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

Approximately 3.08 hectares of land at Richmond Street, Great Bridge, in the borough of Sandwell, shown on the map.

Signed

Nicholas Ridley — Secretary of State for the Environment — 23rd June 1988

Lord Young — Secretary of State for Trade and Industry — 17th June 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 British Steel Corporation 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) and S.I. 1988/900.

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