The Gipsy Encampments (District of Dover) Order 1990

Made: 30th April 1990

Laid before Parliament: 9th May 1990

Coming into force: 30th May 1990

The Secretary of State, being satisfied that adequate provision is made in the area of the District of Dover for the accommodation of gipsies residing in or resorting to that area, on the joint application of the councils of the County of Kent and the District of Dover, and in exercise of the powers conferred by section 12(2) of the Caravan Sites Act 1968[^f00001], and now vested in him[^f00002], 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 (District of Dover) Order 1990 and shall come into force on 30th May 1990.

2

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

Signed

Chris Patten — Secretary of State for the Environment — 30th April 1990

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order designates the District of Dover 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 landwithin the boundaries of a highway, or on any other unoccupied land, or on any occupied landwithout the consent of the occupier.

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

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1968 c. 52; section 12 was substituted by section 175 of the Local Government, Planningand LandAct 1980 (c. 65),and was amended by paragraph 11(2) of Schedule 8 to the Local Government Act 1985 (c. 51).

[^f00002]: S.I. 1970/1681.