The Gipsy Encampments (City of Cambridge) Order 1992

Made: 19th February 1992

Laid before Parliament: 26th February 1992

Coming into force: 18th March 1992

The Secretary of State, being satisfied that in all the circumstances it is not expedient to make adequate provision in the area of the City of Cambridge for the accommodation of gipsies residing in or resorting to that area, on the joint application of the councils of the County of Cambridgeshire and the City of Cambridge, 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 (City of Cambridge) Order 1992 and shall come into force on 18th March 1992.

2

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

Signed

Michael Heseltine — Secretary of State for the Environment — 19th February 1992

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order designates the City of Cambridge 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.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1968 c. 52; section 12 was substituted by section 175 of the Local Government, Planning and Land Act 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.