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

• Citation: S.I. 1988/1317
• Sections: 4

Section 1 Citation and commencement

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.

Section 2 Interpretation

(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 .

(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.

Section 3 Vesting of land

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.

Section 4 Easements and rights in or over land

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.