The Housing (Right to Acquire or Enfranchise) (Designated Rural Areas in the North East) Order 1997

• Citation: S.I. 1997/624
• Sections: 2

Section 1 Citation and commencement

This Order may be cited as the Housing (Right to Acquire or Enfranchise) (Designated Rural Areas in the North East) Order 1997 and shall come into force on 1st April 1997.

Section 2 Designated rural areas

The following areas shall be designated rural areas for the purposes of section 17 of the Housing Act 1996 (the right to acquire) and section 1AA(3)(a) of the Leasehold Reform Act 1967 (additional right to enfranchise)—

(a) the parishes in the districts of the East Riding of Yorkshire, Hartlepool, Middlesborough, North East Lincolnshire, North Lincolnshire, Redcar and Cleveland and Stockton-on-Tees specified in Parts I, II, III, IV, V, VI and VII of Schedule 1 to this Order and in the counties of Durham, Northumberland, North Yorkshire, South Yorkshire, Tyne and Wear and West Yorkshire specified in Parts VIII, IX, X, XI, XII and XIII of Schedule 1 to this Order;

(b) those areas in the parishes and the unparished areas in the districts of the East Riding of Yorkshire, Hartlepool, North Lincolnshire and Redcar and Cleveland specified in Parts I, II, III and IV of Schedule 2 to this Order and in the counties of Durham, Northumberland, North Yorkshire, South Yorkshire, Tyne and Wear and West Yorkshire specified in Parts V, VI, VII, VIII, IX and X of Schedule 2 to this Order each shown bounded with a black line and cross hatched on one of the one hundred and thirty one maps entitled “Maps referred to in the Housing (Right to Acquire or Enfranchise) (Designated Rural Areas in the North East) Order 1997” of which prints, signed by a member of the Senior Civil Service in the Department of the Environment, are deposited and available for inspection at the offices of the Secretary of State for the Environment; and

(c) the parish of Bradfield in the county of South Yorkshire with the exception of the non-cross hatched area shown bounded with a black line on one of the one hundred and thirty one maps entitled “Maps referred to in the Housing (Right to Acquire or Enfranchise) (Designated Rural Areas in the North East) Order 1997” of which prints, signed by a member of the Senior Civil Service in the Department of the Environment, are deposited and available for inspection at the offices of the Secretary of State for the Environment.