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Statutory Instruments
LOCAL GOVERNMENT, ENGLAND AND WALES
Made
4th December 1980
Laid before Parliament
10th December 1980
Coming into Operation
31st December 1980
The Secretary of State for the Environment, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 94(2) of the Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980 and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following order:-
1. This order may be cited as the Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980 (Commencement No. 1) Order 1980 and shall come into operation on 31st December 1980.
2. Part X of the Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980 shall come into operation on 31st December 1980 in the areas of the district and London borough councils specified in the Schedule to this order.
Michael R. D. Heseltine
Secretary of State for the Environment
4th December 1980
Birmingham
Bradford
Bristol
Coventry
Dudley
Ealing
Gateshead
Leeds
Liverpool
Manchester
Middlesbrough
Newcastle-under-Lyme
Newcastle upon Tyne
Preston
Salford
Sefton
Stockport
Stoke
Trafford
Wandsworth
Wirral
This Order brings into operation Part X of the Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980 in certain areas. The Schedule to this order specifies the district and London borough councils in whose areas Part X of the Act of 1980 comes into operation, and the order specifies the date from which it operates in those areas. Part X of the Act provides for registers to be kept of land owned by public bodies, being land which is not being used or not being sufficiently used for the purposes of the performance of a public body's functions or of carrying on their undertaking. Part X also provides that the Secretary of State may direct the public body which own land on a register to take steps to dispose of it.
